# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Lone Star Paving
> OSHA SIR `2025043522` · 4/15/2025 · GIDDINGS, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed between running equipment and other object(s)
- **Source:** Concrete paving machines, pavers
- **Secondary source:** Guardrails, road dividers or barriers
## Employer
- **Name:** Lone Star Paving
- **Location:** US 290 East Bound Lanes, GIDDINGS, TEXAS, 78942
- **NAICS:** 237310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees were laying asphalt paving on a highway. The injured employee was walking beside the paver machine with his hand on top of the road widener extension. The extension was lowered and his finger was pinched between the machine and a steel guardrail along the side of the highway. As a result, the injured employee sustained an amputation of his right middle fingertip.

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