# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at SAM Rhodes Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024099132` · 9/30/2024 · SALIDA, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
- **Source:** Tanker trucks
- **Secondary source:** Exterior vehicle and machine parts  n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** SAM Rhodes Inc.
- **Location:** 6200 Co. Rd. 107, SALIDA, COLORADO, 81201
- **NAICS:** 488490
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was folding down a ladder to his tanker when it became unsteady and his right index finger became pinched in the ladder. The employee was hospitalized and his fingertip was surgically amputated below the nailbed.

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