# Avulsions, enucleations without bone loss at Joe Bland Construction LLC
> OSHA SIR `2025088363` · 8/21/2025 · GEORGETOWN, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Avulsions, enucleations without bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
- **Source:** Structures other than buildings  n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Joe Bland Construction LLC
- **Location:** East View Terrace Wastewater Jobsite, GEORGETOWN, TEXAS, 78626
- **NAICS:** 237310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was adjusting the spreader bar on a 4-foot trench box while a loader held the trench box's sidewall. As the employee was checking the bar's alignment in order to install the safety pin, the trench box shifted and his finger was caught between the spreader bar and the collar on the sidewall. He suffered an amputation to the ring fingertip, without loss of bone.

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