# Amputations involving bone loss at Eaton's Cooper Power System
> OSHA SIR `2024010064` · 1/3/2024 · SOUTH MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
- **Source:** Bending, crimping machinery
- **Secondary source:** Other source, secondary source  n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Eaton's Cooper Power System
- **Location:** 2800 9th Avenue, SOUTH MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, 53172
- **NAICS:** 335999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a pneumatic benchtop-mounted crimper to crimp a terminal onto a wire. As the employee held the wire with their right hand, the crimper actuated and caught their right index fingertip in its jaws. The employee suffered an amputation to the fingertip.

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