# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at ATLANTIC CASTING & ENGINEERING CORPORATION
> OSHA SIR `2024054596` · 5/24/2024 · CLIFTON, NEW JERSEY
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact incidents  unspecified
- **Source:** Hoists, lifts  overhead, cable
- **Secondary source:** Hooks, shackles, magnets, clamshells
## Employer
- **Name:** ATLANTIC CASTING & ENGINEERING CORPORATION
- **Location:** 810 BLOOMFIELD AVENUE, CLIFTON, NEW JERSEY, 07012
- **NAICS:** 331522
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was lifting a component into a water blast machine when their right middle finger got caught between the lifting hook of the hoist and the component resulting in a fingertip amputation.

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