# Amputations involving bone loss at Penske Truck Leasing
> OSHA SIR `20241211681` · 12/18/2024 · GUILDERLAND CENTER, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Straight trucks, box trucks
- **Secondary source:** Drives, belts, chains
## Employer
- **Name:** Penske Truck Leasing
- **Location:** Building 17, GUILDERLAND CENTER, NEW YORK, 12085
- **NAICS:** 532120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was performing maintenance on the refrigeration unit of a truck. As they were walking up a platform ladder, the ladder fell backward and the employee reached up with his right hand to hold onto something. The employee contacted the refrigeration motor belt, which pulled his index and middle fingers into a pulley, resulting in amputations to the first knuckle.

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