# Amputations at AUTOMATIC PROPANE GAS AND SUPPLY, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2015075183` · 7/29/2015 · LINDALE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Ladders, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** AUTOMATIC PROPANE GAS AND SUPPLY, LLC
- **Location:** 22500 FM 1995, LINDALE, TEXAS, 75771
- **NAICS:** 423830
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was holding a ladder for another employee to access the top of a bulk propane tank.  When the employee was in motion to step off of the ladder and onto the tank, the ladder slipped and amputated the employee's right hand thumb.

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