# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Kiewit
> OSHA SIR `20241110842` · 11/20/2024 · CATSKILL, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed between running equipment and other object(s)
- **Source:** Bucket, front-end, and pay loaders
- **Secondary source:** Structures other than buildings  n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Kiewit
- **Location:** 79 Allen Street, CATSKILL, NEW YORK, 12414
- **NAICS:** 238210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee and his crew began assembling trench boxes for an upcoming culvert replacement operation. The crew used a wheel loader with forks to lift the top plate into position when the plate became misaligned with a post. The injured employee's right index fingertip was in the retaining pin hole as the signal person lifted, 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*