# Amputations at Austin Commercial
> OSHA SIR `2015074702` · 7/15/2015 · AUSTIN, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Scaffolds-staging, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Austin Commercial
- **Location:** 201 West 5th Street, AUSTIN, TEXAS, 78701
- **NAICS:** 236220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working with formwork that has pins and telescope. The finger was in one of the scaffold pin holes and when the scaffold collapsed it took off the tip of his right middle finger. No bone was lost.

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