# Amputations at Honda Engine Plant
> OSHA SIR `2015064104` · 6/26/2015 · ANNA, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Nonclassifiable
## Employer
- **Name:** Honda Engine Plant
- **Location:** 12500 Meranda Road, ANNA, OHIO, 45302
- **NAICS:** 336111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was transferring a hoist in need of repairs from the I beam that it worked on to a rail attached to a crane. While disconnecting the two I beams, the rail jumped up, striking the support for the permanent rail and amputating the employee's third distal joint of the thumb on the left hand.

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