# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Deanco, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025088603` · 8/28/2025 · CONROE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
- **Source:** Pipes and tubes  plastic, PVC, rubber
- **Secondary source:** Pipes and tubes  plastic, PVC, rubber
## Employer
- **Name:** Deanco, Inc.
- **Location:** 3700 Willow Valley Court, CONROE, TEXAS, 77301
- **NAICS:** 237110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A crew was installing 8-inch polyvinyl chloride (PVC) waterline in a trench. An employee was soaping a joint to insert the spigot end of a pipe into the previously laid joint when the joint was pushed together. The employee's left ring and little fingers were pinched between the two pipes. The ring finger was injured and the little fingertip was amputated.

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