# Avulsions, enucleations without bone loss at Federal Signal Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2024043211` · 4/11/2024 · RUGBY, NORTH DAKOTA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Avulsions, enucleations without bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
- **Source:** Elevators, hoists, lifts  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Hydraulic and pressurized cylinders
## Employer
- **Name:** Federal Signal Corporation
- **Location:** 515 1st ST NE, RUGBY, NORTH DAKOTA, 58368
- **NAICS:** 332322
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was installing a cylinder into a hoist. As he was trying to align the parts, the cylinder rod retracted and caused a soft tissue amputation to the distal tip of his left middle finger.

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