# Amputations at M.P.G. Pipeline Contractors, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2019010585` · 1/17/2019 · GEORGE WEST, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Construction, logging, and mining machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** M.P.G. Pipeline Contractors, LLC
- **Location:** CR 356--West Side of IH 37, GEORGE WEST, TEXAS, 78022
- **NAICS:** 213112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was assisting others in rotating a canopy on a piece of heavy machinery which was to be placed where welders were working when his finger was caught between two pad eye stops. The employee sustained the amputation of the distal fourth finger on the left hand.

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