# Amputations at Service Electric Company
> OSHA SIR `2021075604` · 7/9/2021 · CHULUOTA, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Bucket, front-end, end, and pay loaders
## Employer
- **Name:** Service Electric Company
- **Location:** 2500 Brumley Rd, CHULUOTA, FLORIDA, 32766
- **NAICS:** 237130
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

The employee was rigging a towing strap to a front-end loader to tow a truck out of the mud and onto matting. The front-end loader moved while the employee's thumb was between the vertical drop pin and the tow bar of the front-end loader, resulting in a partial thumb tip amputation.

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