# Amputations at E. R. Snell Contractor, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20161211573` · 12/12/2016 · LEXINGTON, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Excavating machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** E. R. Snell Contractor, Inc.
- **Location:** Crossing US 78.  Between Washington and Lexington GA.  Near Church Road and State Route 10 or US 78., LEXINGTON, GEORGIA, 30648
- **NAICS:** 236210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was connecting a cable that had been looped around a pipe to hook the pipe onto an excavator bucket and lay it across the highway. As the excavator operator raised the boom, the employee's hand became caught between the cable and the hook, amputating his left index fingertip.

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