# Amputations involving bone loss at Minnkota Power Cooperative
> OSHA SIR `2025021859` · 2/26/2025 · OSLO, MINNESOTA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact incidents  unspecified
- **Source:** Electric parts  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Source, secondary source  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Minnkota Power Cooperative
- **Location:** 5427 160th Ave NE (In ND with MN address), OSLO, MINNESOTA, 56744
- **NAICS:** 221121
- **Jurisdiction:** 0
## Narrative

An employee was decommissioning a substation. The tower switch was being set down on the ground when the switch blade moved. The employee's finger was crushed and amputated.

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