# Amputations at Big Tex Trailers, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017109555` · 10/5/2017 · CORDELE, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Bending, crimping machines
## Employer
- **Name:** Big Tex Trailers, Inc.
- **Location:** 502 S. Midway, CORDELE, GEORGIA, 31015
- **NAICS:** 336214
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a tube bender machine to bend a tube section when the employee's right pinky finger was caught and amputated between the tube section and bender head.

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