# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at A.R.Plante Materials & Earthworks, LLC
> OSHA SIR `20241211758` · 12/20/2024 · BROCKTON, MASSACHUSETTS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with non-running objects or equipment  unspecified
- **Source:** Vehicle and machine front attachments
- **Secondary source:** Springs, coils
## Employer
- **Name:** A.R.Plante Materials & Earthworks, LLC
- **Location:** Westgate Mall, BROCKTON, MASSACHUSETTS, 02301
- **NAICS:** 327992
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working on a snow plow, trying to free a spring that had become struck when their finger was pinched in the springs on the snow plow. When the spring released, it amputated the fingertip.

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