# Amputations at Flintco, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2016010857` · 1/30/2016 · AUSTIN, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object or equipment dropped by other person
- **Source:** Grates
## Employer
- **Name:** Flintco, LLC
- **Location:** 222 West Avenue, AUSTIN, TEXAS, 78701
- **NAICS:** 236220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Three workers were setting a cast iron tree grate in place. Two lifted the grate while a third placed wooden block underneath to prop it up. When the grate lowered, a worker's finger was caught between the grate and the block, resulting in the amputation of the right little finger from the fingertip to the second knuckle.

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