# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Flatiron/Dragados, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2024098562` · 9/14/2024 · CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object dropped by person
- **Source:** Rods, reinforcing bar (rebar) metal
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Flatiron/Dragados, LLC
- **Location:** 1620 North Port Avenue, CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS, 78401
- **NAICS:** 237310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On September 14, 2024, at 7:00 PM, employees were removing multi-purpose metal bars from an I-beam support of the new bridge deck. When the injured employee was lifting a bar, the bar slipped from his hands. He was catching the bar and his left ring and little fingers became caught between the knot of that bar and the I-beam support. He was hospitalized for surgery and medical amputation of his ring fingertip.

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