# Amputations at Covanta Dade Renewable Energy, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2021108506` · 10/1/2021 · MIAMI, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Leg(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
- **Source:** Cranes, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Covanta Dade Renewable Energy, LLC
- **Location:** Resource Recovery Facility - Covanta Miami-Dade, MIAMI, FLORIDA, 33178
- **NAICS:** 562998
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A crane operator was resetting a limit switch on an overhead crane. A cable and/or drum caught the operator's left leg, causing the operator to fall about 10 feet from the crane bridge. The employee's leg got entangled in the crane cables resulting in amputation of their left leg at the thigh. The employee was hospitalized.

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