# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Heil Environmental
> OSHA SIR `2024010637` · 1/22/2024 · FORT PAYNE, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Thumb(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
- **Source:** Material and personnel handling machinery  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Hooks, shackles, magnets, clamshells
## Employer
- **Name:** Heil Environmental
- **Location:** 106 45th Street NE, FORT PAYNE, ALABAMA, 35967
- **NAICS:** 336211
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating crane hoist machinery. Upon returning the empty cell crane hoist hook to its home position, the employee's left thumb was caught by the hook and partially amputated.

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