# Amputations at Trinity Rail Maintenance Services, Inc
> OSHA SIR `20171111252` · 11/26/2017 · VIDOR, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Entangled in other object or equipment
- **Source:** Rope, twine, string
## Employer
- **Name:** Trinity Rail Maintenance Services, Inc
- **Location:** 1815 South Main, VIDOR, TEXAS, 77662
- **NAICS:** 488210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was securing a rope around a bag on the bottom of a dust collector when the rope became entangled around the employee's left thumb, causing a laceration and amputation above the first joint.

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