# Amputations involving bone loss at Shields Asphalt Paving, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024087266` · 8/8/2024 · WEST SUNBURY, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall on same level resulting in exposure or contact
- **Source:** Ground, travel, and support surfaces  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Concrete paving machines, pavers
## Employer
- **Name:** Shields Asphalt Paving, Inc.
- **Location:** 1810 W Sunbury Road, WEST SUNBURY, PENNSYLVANIA, 16061
- **NAICS:** 237310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was walking beside an asphalt paving machine. The employee tripped and fell into the path of the machine, whose tracks ran over the employee's right leg. The employee suffered an amputation to the lower leg.

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