# Amputations at Panel Truss Hearne, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2019099387` · 9/9/2019 · HEARNE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Clamps, couplings
## Employer
- **Name:** Panel Truss Hearne, LLC
- **Location:** 407 West 6th Street, HEARNE, TEXAS, 77859
- **NAICS:** 321214
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

While building a truss, an employee's left hand was holding onto a wooden truss when a pneumatic clamp, designed to hold the sides of the truss in place during manufacturing, engaged and caused the partial amputation of the employee's left thumb tip.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*