# Amputations at DPR Construction Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20201211502` · 12/8/2020 · AUSTIN, 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, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Pallet jack-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** DPR Construction Inc.
- **Location:** Block 185 Project, 600 West Cesar Chavez Street, AUSTIN, TEXAS, 78701
- **NAICS:** 236220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was helping guide a pallet jack being moved by a crane. The pallet jack was lowered onto the employee's left index finger, causing a partial amputation (all of the fingernail and bone at the fingertip).

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