# Amputations at Frank J. Zottola Construction, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2023098402` · 9/12/2023 · PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle
- **Source:** Excavating machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Frank J. Zottola Construction, Inc.
- **Location:** William Penn Place, PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA, 15219
- **NAICS:** 237110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees were pushing trash down into a dumpster to prepare the dumpster to be picked up. Employee 2 was using an excavator bucket to push down the trash. The injured employee was on the other side of the dumpster, pushing in a loose piece of trash, when his left hand was struck by the excavator bucket. His left ring finger was amputated.

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