# Amputations at Loredo Truss Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20171211784` · 12/12/2017 · AUSTIN, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Arm saws, radial arm saws
## Employer
- **Name:** Loredo Truss Company, Inc.
- **Location:** 2506 Ferguson Lane, AUSTIN, TEXAS, 78754
- **NAICS:** 321214
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a radial arm saw to cut 12-inch pieces of wood when the saw cut and amputated the employee's left thumb tip.

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