# Amputations at Mammoet USA South, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017065552` · 6/16/2017 · FREEPORT, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Lower leg(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Material and personnel handling machinery, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Concrete parking blocks and barriers
## Employer
- **Name:** Mammoet USA South, Inc.
- **Location:** 1001 Navigation Blvd, FREEPORT, TEXAS, 77541
- **NAICS:** 484230
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a self propelled modular transport trailer that had a load and was walking backward when he was caught between the edge of a jersey barrier and the power pack of the trailer. His right leg was crushed below the knee and had to be surgically amputated.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*