# Amputations at AECOM
> OSHA SIR `2016043095` · 4/13/2016 · ROXANA, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Drums, pulleys, sheaves
## Employer
- **Name:** AECOM
- **Location:** P66 / WRB Refining, ROXANA, ILLINOIS, 62084
- **NAICS:** 237120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was helping to take a cable winch system down. The system had been used to pull a heat exchange bundle. The employee's hand was on a poly snatch block when the operator moved the cable. The employee's fingertip was caught between the cable and poly snatch block, resulting in a distal finger amputation.

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