# Amputations involving bone loss at Yale University
> OSHA SIR `2025010154` · 1/6/2025 · NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  irregular movement, kick back
- **Source:** Stationary saws  table
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Yale University
- **Location:** 180 York Street / Architectural, NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, 06511
- **NAICS:** 611310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a portable table saw to cut wooden strips when a wood strip kicked back, pulling their left hand into the rotating blade. The employee's left index finger and another finger were lacerated, and the ring fingertip was amputated to the joint. The employee was hospitalized.

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