# Amputations involving bone loss at Wing Aviation Charter Services, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2024043337` · 4/17/2024 · CONROE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by door, gate, window
- **Source:** Doors, hatches  vehicle and machine cabin
- **Secondary source:** Airplane powered fixed wing, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Wing Aviation Charter Services, LLC
- **Location:** 2971 Hawthorne Drive, CONROE, TEXAS, 77301
- **NAICS:** 481211
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A maintenance employee was conducting a pre-flight inspection and caught their left ring finger in the aircraft kickstand while closing the aircraft door, resulting in amputation of the fingertip to the first knuckle.

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