# Amputations involving bone loss at GCA Production Services
> OSHA SIR `2025065491` · 6/9/2025 · COLUMBUS, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Toes(s), toenail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Nonroadway noncollision  Struck by shifting, dislodged load in transport
- **Source:** Pallet jack riding
- **Secondary source:** Guardrails, road dividers or barriers
## Employer
- **Name:** GCA Production Services
- **Location:** 4002 International Gateway, COLUMBUS, OHIO, 43219
- **NAICS:** 561720
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was moving a concrete jersey barrier with a pallet jack. The barrier broke near its base and toppled onto the employee's right foot, causing injuries to the third and fourth toes including an amputation of the distal tissues and tuft of the distal phalanx at the fourth digit with at least one small, nondisplaced fracture of the tuft of the second distal phalanx with overlying soft tissue swelling. They also sustained a comminuted fracture of the tuft of the third distal phalanx with multiple displaced bone fragments and overlying soft tissue swelling. The employee was hospitalized.

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