# Amputations at ALTEC INDUSTRIES INC
> OSHA SIR `2020032254` · 3/9/2020 · SAINT JOSEPH, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
- **Source:** Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** ALTEC INDUSTRIES INC
- **Location:** 2106 S RIVERSIDE RD, SAINT JOSEPH, MISSOURI, 64507
- **NAICS:** 333924
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

The injured employee was assisting another associate in working on a bumper winch. The injured employee's hand was on the bumper when someone under the truck called the employee's name. The injured employee looked under the truck and the eyelet on the bumper winch caught their thumb. The employee sustained a partial amputation to the right thumb.

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