# Amputations at Big Creek Construction
> OSHA SIR `2018043577` · 4/13/2018 · LORENA, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Machine and appliance parts, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Big Creek Construction
- **Location:** 1617 South Old Temple Road, LORENA, TEXAS, 76655
- **NAICS:** 237310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was fixing the gate to a silo at a concrete batch plant when the gate fell and caught his right thumb, resulting in an amputation.

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