# Amputations at Rusty's Weigh Scales and Service Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2015107724` · 10/15/2015 · LUBBOCK, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Scales
## Employer
- **Name:** Rusty's Weigh Scales and Service Inc.
- **Location:** 408 North I-27, LUBBOCK, TEXAS, 79403
- **NAICS:** 811219
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee raised a platform scale out of the framework.  The scale fell on the employee's hand and amputated the left thumb.

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