# Amputations involving bone loss at Waste Connections of Arkansas, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025010140` · 1/6/2025 · HEBER SPRINGS, ARKANSAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
- **Source:** Dump trucks
- **Secondary source:** Tanks, bins, vats  except confined space
## Employer
- **Name:** Waste Connections of Arkansas, Inc.
- **Location:** 734 South Fourth Street, HEBER SPRINGS, ARKANSAS, 72543
- **NAICS:** 562111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was dumping a rear-load dumpster and unlatched the safety latch to the dumpster as it was coming down. The dumpster shifted and pinched his left index finger, resulting in a severe laceration up to the last knuckle. The employee was hospitalized and sustained a medical amputation of the finger to the knuckle.

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