# Amputations at Whitmores Worsley Inc
> OSHA SIR `2021097851` · 9/13/2021 · EAST HAMPTON, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Vehicle and mobile equipment parts, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** Whitmores Worsley Inc
- **Location:** 4 Hardscrabble Court, EAST HAMPTON, NEW YORK, 11937
- **NAICS:** 561730
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Two employees were installing a boom on a bucket truck. The boom was on a chain attached to a forklift; one employee was operating the forklift while the other moved the boom onto the truck. The chain released and the boom fell to the ground, smashing the employee's right hand under it. The employee suffered fractures to the middle and ring fingers and a partial amputation to the index finger.

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