# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at BrandSafway Industries, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2024099090` · 9/29/2024 · LACYGNE, KANSAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Thumb(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
- **Source:** Structural elements  n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Scaffolds, staging  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** BrandSafway Industries, LLC
- **Location:** 25166 E.2200th Rd., LACYGNE, KANSAS, 66040
- **NAICS:** 238990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was guiding a temporary roof onto a scaffolding structure when their thumb became caught between a panel of the temporary roof and a scaffold component. The employee sustained an open displaced fracture of the distal phalanx of their left thumb, resulting in an amputation.

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