# Amputations at SERVICE ELECTRIC COMPANY
> OSHA SIR `20191111644` · 11/8/2019 · GLENNVILLE, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Containers-variable restraint, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility, n.e.c
## Employer
- **Name:** SERVICE ELECTRIC COMPANY
- **Location:** Glennville Substation, GLENNVILLE, GEORGIA, 30427
- **NAICS:** 221122
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was providing ground support and acting as a spotter when a steel wire that was being lifted drifted toward a boom cylinder. The employee was trying to stop it from striking a digger derrick when the employee's pinky and ring fingers were pinched between the wire wheel and the boom cylinder, resulting in partial amputations of both fingers.

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