# Amputations at Marinex Construction, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018010813` · 1/24/2018 · SAINT AUGUSTINE, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Machinery or equipment incident on water vehicle
- **Source:** Water vehicle, n.e.c
## Employer
- **Name:** Marinex Construction, Inc.
- **Location:** St. Augustine Inlet, Atlantic Ocean, SAINT AUGUSTINE, FLORIDA, 32080
- **NAICS:** 237990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee and his crew were connecting a float hose and a head section (floating pipeline for hydraulic dredge). He was tying a 2-inch polypropylene line from the dredge tender to the pontoon tank when his left ring and pinky fingers were caught and amputated between the line and the bit.

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