# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Wilson Trailer Company
> OSHA SIR `2024109560` · 10/14/2024 · GRAND ISLAND, NEBRASKA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
- **Source:** Bending, crimping machinery
- **Secondary source:** Machine and tool parts, accessories  n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Wilson Trailer Company
- **Location:** 2314 U.S. 30, GRAND ISLAND, NEBRASKA, 68801
- **NAICS:** 811111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a hand brake to bend material for an outside rail on a trailer repair job. The employee released the clamp lever to place the material between the brake's upper and lower jaws. The lever snapped back, catching the employee's left ring finger against the stop block on the back of the handle. The fingertip was amputated.

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