# Amputations involving bone loss at BO-MAC CONTRACTORS, LTD
> OSHA SIR `2024065607` · 6/24/2024 · BEAUMONT, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
- **Source:** Pile drivers, tamping machinery
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** BO-MAC CONTRACTORS, LTD
- **Location:** Linde Blue H2 Project, BEAUMONT, TEXAS, 77705
- **NAICS:** 238110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee acting in the capacity of a pile driver was greasing a pile driving hammer that was on the ground while in a blind spot of the crane operator. The hammer was raised and pinched the injured pile driver's left hand between the sidewall of the hammer and the grease gun in the piling leads, resulting in amputation of the middle fingertip through the nailbed and a fractured ring finger.

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