# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Performance Contractors, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025076356` · 7/1/2025 · PORT SULPHUR, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Thumb(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by suspended or swinging objects  n.e.c.
- **Source:** Valves, nozzles
- **Secondary source:** Cranes  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Performance Contractors, Inc.
- **Location:** Venture Global LNG, PORT SULPHUR, LOUISIANA, 70083
- **NAICS:** 236210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was removing a 24" OD actuator valve that weighed 10,000 pounds from a structure on the fifth floor using a lattice crane. During the lift, the valve became hung up on the permanent handrail and their left thumb was caught between the valve and the handrail. The employee sustained a partial amputation of the thumb.

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