# Amputations involving bone loss at Duit Construction CO, INC.
> OSHA SIR `2024043017` · 4/5/2024 · OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by door, gate, window
- **Source:** Dump trucks
- **Secondary source:** Gates, hatches  vehicle and machine cargo
## Employer
- **Name:** Duit Construction CO, INC.
- **Location:** 35.42125513461923, -97.3913924746343, OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA, 73145
- **NAICS:** 237310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning the bed of a dump truck and had the bed lifted and the tailgate propped open on a block of wood. When finished, they manually closed the tailgate and when the wood block was removed the tailgate fell on their left hand, resulting in surgical amputation of the index fingertip to the first knuckle.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*