# Amputations at Knife River Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2020054313` · 5/8/2020 · HEWITT, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Chutes
- **Secondary source:** Cement truck, concrete mixer truck
## Employer
- **Name:** Knife River Corporation
- **Location:** 1102 Steamboat Dr., HEWITT, TEXAS, 76643
- **NAICS:** 238110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On 5/08/2020, at 09:30 AM, an employee was delivering concrete to a construction site and installing the metal chutes on his ready mix truck when his right two middle fingers were pinched between chutes. As a result, he sustained a partial traumatic transphalangeal amputation of his right middle finger.

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