# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Gridco, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024076451` · 7/16/2024 · RYLAND, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
- **Source:** Utility poles
- **Secondary source:** Utility poles
## Employer
- **Name:** Gridco, Inc.
- **Location:** Dug hill and US Hwy 72, RYLAND, ALABAMA, 35767
- **NAICS:** 238210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was unloading steel power poles from a trailer when the poles became off-balanced. The employee attempted to grab a pole when it slipped and pinched their right ring finger against another section of poles, resulting in an amputation to the finger.

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