# Amputations involving bone loss at Vehtek Systems Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025032278` · 3/10/2025 · BOWLING GREEN, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Thumb(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
- **Source:** Cranes gantry, overhead, monorail, container
- **Secondary source:** Slings
## Employer
- **Name:** Vehtek Systems Inc.
- **Location:** 2125 Wood-Bridge Blvd., BOWLING GREEN, OHIO, 43402
- **NAICS:** 336370
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

At about 9:45 a.m. on March 10, 2025, an employee was using a 5-ton overhead crane to move a right-hand check fixture, weighing 5,150 pounds, in a coordinate-measuring machine lab. As the crane lifted the fixture, the metal sling securing the fixture slipped over the employee's left thumb. The thumb was crushed between the metal slip and fixture, and the last joint was amputated.

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