# Amputations at Safway Services, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2018033100` · 3/31/2018 · ROXANA, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Nonclassifiable
## Employer
- **Name:** Safway Services, LLC
- **Location:** 900 S Central Ave, ROXANA, ILLINOIS, 62084
- **NAICS:** 238990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was dismantling a scaffold system when a cable line supporting the counterweight for the scaffold broke. This caused the counterweight to suddenly drop and catch the employee's left thumb and index finger between the weight and a steel cross beam, resulting in the amputation of the thumb at the first knuckle and fracture of the index finger.

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