# Amputations at Mason Brothers Construction Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018043294` · 4/6/2018 · POST, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Trailers
## Employer
- **Name:** Mason Brothers Construction Company, Inc.
- **Location:** George R Brown Partnership, Post Montgomery A-34, POST, TEXAS, 79356
- **NAICS:** 213112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees were unlatching a trailer when the trailer moved, catching the injured employee's left index finger between the truck and the trailer hitch. The employee's fingertip was amputated.

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