# Amputations at Consolidated Concrete Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2018010969` · 1/29/2018 · EAST PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Concrete blocks, cinder blocks
## Employer
- **Name:** Consolidated Concrete Corporation
- **Location:** 835 Taunton Avenue, EAST PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, 02914
- **NAICS:** 327310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was carrying and stacking cement blocks when his gloved left pinky finger became caught under a block. As he attempted to pull the finger from underneath the block, his hand came out of the glove and suffered an amputation to the top of his left pinky finger.

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