# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at SPANCO, Incorporated
> OSHA SIR `2024109474` · 10/11/2024 · MORGANTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
- **Source:** Cranes  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Chains
## Employer
- **Name:** SPANCO, Incorporated
- **Location:** 604 Hemlock Road, MORGANTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA, 19543
- **NAICS:** 333923
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was prepping a metal beam for paint in the paint area. The employee lifted the crane while his ring finger was between the eye hook on the crane and the eye on the hoisting chain, pinching it. The employee sustained a partial medical amputation of the fingertip from the nail bed.

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