# Amputations at Centennial Elevator Industries Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2016054642` · 5/26/2016 · NEW YORK, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Arm(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Elevators
## Employer
- **Name:** Centennial Elevator Industries Inc.
- **Location:** 50 Broadway, NEW YORK, NEW YORK, 10004
- **NAICS:** 238290
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was helping to perform maintenance on an elevator and was handing a mechanic a wire cable when the cable became caught on the elevator, amputating the employee's right arm and lacerating the leg.

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