# Amputations involving bone loss at WIND RIVER ENVIRONMENTAL, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2024021618` · 2/21/2024 · MILLERTON, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Forearm(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
- **Source:** Trucks with other mounted machinery, equipment  n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Powered take offs (PTOs)
## Employer
- **Name:** WIND RIVER ENVIRONMENTAL, LLC
- **Location:** 97 Main Street, MILLERTON, NEW YORK, 12546
- **NAICS:** 562910
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was pumping out a grease trap at a customer location and got their right hand and arm caught in the power take-off (PTO) drive shaft under the truck. The employee sustained an amputation of their lower right arm.

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