# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Barletta Materials & Construction, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024087944` · 8/27/2024 · TAMAQUA, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object  unspecified
- **Source:** Vehicle and machine front attachments
- **Secondary source:** Concrete paving machines, pavers
## Employer
- **Name:** Barletta Materials & Construction, Inc.
- **Location:** Church Street, TAMAQUA, PENNSYLVANIA, 18252
- **NAICS:** 237310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees were setting up a paver for a paving project starting the next day. They were installing the strike-off plate when the plate slid while it was being attached and struck the injured employee's right thumb, amputating the tip of it.

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