# Amputations at Black Ice Transport LLC
> OSHA SIR `2017043293` · 4/11/2017 · PECOS, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Highway vehicle, motorized, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Wood, lumber, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Black Ice Transport LLC
- **Location:** 2387 FM 1450, PECOS, TEXAS, 79772
- **NAICS:** 488490
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee's truck was stuck in the sand. The employee placed a board under the tire in order to gain traction and caught his index finger between the tire and board resulting in a partial amputation.

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