# Amputations at Nova Bus Plattsburgh
> OSHA SIR `2017054268` · 5/10/2017 · PLATTSBURGH, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
- **Source:** Turning handtools-powered, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Belts, gloves, neckties, scarves
## Employer
- **Name:** Nova Bus Plattsburgh
- **Location:** 260 Banker Way, PLATTSBURGH, NEW YORK, 12901
- **NAICS:** 336999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working on a pneumatic nut runner (air ratchet) equipped with a long extension to bolt seat rails to a bus. The employee was wearing gloves at the time. She was holding the air ratchet overhead with her left hand near the rotating ratchet head when the ratchet head and extension caught her glove, wrapping it around her left pinky and partially de-gloving it. Her left pinky finger had to be partially amputated.

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