# Amputations at Paradigm Metals Incorporated
> OSHA SIR `2017088092` · 8/22/2017 · PFLUGERVILLE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Structural metal materials, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Cart, dolly, hand truck-nonpowered
## Employer
- **Name:** Paradigm Metals Incorporated
- **Location:** 15811 Vision Drive, PFLUGERVILLE, TEXAS, 78660
- **NAICS:** 332322
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee and a coworker were moving a metal cart that had metal pieces loaded on it when the employee's right thumb was caught between the cart edge and a metal piece. When the employee pulled his hand out, his right thumb was amputated (with bone loss) from the nail upwards.

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