# Amputations at Hughes Brothers Construction, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2022010078` · 1/5/2022 · ORLANDO, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle
- **Source:** Excavating machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Hughes Brothers Construction, Inc.
- **Location:** New housing development site, ORLANDO, FLORIDA, 32832
- **NAICS:** 237110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was in a trench box next to an excavator spreader removing and replacing a sewage pipe. His right hand was on top of the trench box spreader bar when his thumb was partially crushed by the excavator bucket, resulting in amputation of the thumb tip.

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