# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Universal Stainless and Alloy Products
> OSHA SIR `2025010481` · 1/15/2025 · DUNKIRK, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by suspended or swinging objects  n.e.c.
- **Source:** Batteries
- **Secondary source:** Cranes gantry, overhead, monorail, container
## Employer
- **Name:** Universal Stainless and Alloy Products
- **Location:** 830 Brigham Road, DUNKIRK, NEW YORK, 14048
- **NAICS:** 331221
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using an overhead crane to change a large sideloader battery. While he was installing the charged battery, the load began to swing. As he was stopping it from swinging into the sideloader, his right middle finger was pinched between the sideloader wall and the battery. He suffered an open fracture to the last joint of the finger, resulting in an amputation.

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