# Amputations at Centerpoint Energy Houston Electric, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2023010066` · 1/3/2023 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Boom truck, bucket or basket hoist truck
- **Secondary source:** Furniture and fixtures, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Centerpoint Energy Houston Electric, LLC
- **Location:** 1111 Louisiana St., HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77002
- **NAICS:** 335999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees were using a winch line on a boom truck to lower a utility pole onto pole stands. An employee's hand was caught between the stand and the utility pole resulting in partial amputation of the left thumb.

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