# Amputations at Caterpillar Work Tools
> OSHA SIR `2015086167` · 8/26/2015 · WACO, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object or equipment dropped by injured worker
- **Source:** Machine, tool, and electric parts, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Caterpillar Work Tools
- **Location:** 2000 Texas Central Parkway, WACO, TEXAS, 76712
- **NAICS:** 541420
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was moving a tie rod part from a cart to assemble into a larger part.  The part slipped from his hands and when he tried to catch the 18 pound part his middle finger was crushed between the part and the table resulting in the amputation of the fingertip.

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