# Amputations at Capital Electric Line Builders Incorporated
> OSHA SIR `20191212976` · 12/18/2019 · STANBERRY, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Utility and telephone poles
- **Secondary source:** Structural elements, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Capital Electric Line Builders Incorporated
- **Location:** 169 Highway and 470th Road, STANBERRY, MISSOURI, 64489
- **NAICS:** 238210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a skid steer to move a metal pole stand, used to support a wooden electrical pole. The wooden pole slid on the forks of the skid steer and pinched the employee's right little finger against the pole stand. The fingertip was amputated.

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