# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at LOREN COOK COMPANY
> OSHA SIR `2025010437` · 1/14/2025 · SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
- **Source:** Cranes  n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Strapping, bands
## Employer
- **Name:** LOREN COOK COMPANY
- **Location:** 2707 N. Barnes, SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI, 65803
- **NAICS:** 332999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was lifting a fan part with a jib crane to take it from vertical to horizontal. The part, a large hollow steel cylinder with a flange on each end, was attached with lifting lugs and two lifting straps on either side of it in and upside-down V coming down from the crane hook. As the part was rotated, the employee's right hand was caught between the flange and a lifting strap and two right-hand fingers were crushed. The employee suffered an amputation to the ring fingertip, as well as a laceration/crush injury to the middle finger.

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