# Amputations involving bone loss at Lowes Home Improvement LLC
> OSHA SIR `2024043678` · 4/27/2024 · LEWES, DELAWARE
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
- **Source:** Fences
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Lowes Home Improvement LLC
- **Location:** 20364 Plantations Road, LEWES, DELAWARE, 19958
- **NAICS:** 444110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was manually operating the garden center's perimeter garden gate when his right index finger became caught in the fence. The employee was hospitalized and the top portion of his right index finger was amputated. Further surgery will be required.

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