# Amputations at Wise Pole Line
> OSHA SIR `2015042361` · 4/27/2015 · DECATUR, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Boom truck, bucket or basket hoist truck
## Employer
- **Name:** Wise Pole Line
- **Location:** 159 Old Decatur Road, DECATUR, TEXAS, 76234
- **NAICS:** 221119
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Two employees were performing maintenance on a boom truck.  As employee one was coming down off the truck he placed his hand into the cradle where the boom rests.  Employee two did not see him and started to lower the boom resulting in the amputation of employee one's right middle  fingertip.

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