# Amputations at Packers Sanitation Services, Inc (PSSI)
> OSHA SIR `2015010878` · 1/28/2015 · WEIMAR, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Fall, slip, trip, unspecified
- **Source:** Ladders, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Packers Sanitation Services, Inc (PSSI)
- **Location:** 1078 U.S Highway 90, WEIMAR, TEXAS, 78962
- **NAICS:** 561720
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employee was working on a ladder. He slipped and instinctively grabbed onto a piece of equipment to try and steady himself, causing an avulsion to the left-hand middle and ring fingers. This resulted in hospitalization, and those fingers were amputated.

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