# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Kobalt Construction
> OSHA SIR `2024109387` · 10/8/2024 · BETHLEHEM, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact incidents  unspecified
- **Source:** Source, secondary source  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Excavators
## Employer
- **Name:** Kobalt Construction
- **Location:** 1570 Stokes Park Road, BETHLEHEM, PENNSYLVANIA, 18017
- **NAICS:** 238910
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was setting a concrete pipe in the street when the excavator shifted causing the pipe setting apparatus to shift, resulting in the amputation of the employee's left thumb tip.

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