# Amputations involving bone loss at UNITED GRADING & EXCAVATING
> OSHA SIR `2025032535` · 3/17/2025 · DOUGLASVILLE, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with non-running objects or equipment  unspecified
- **Source:** Hydrants
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** UNITED GRADING & EXCAVATING
- **Location:** 7200 Concourse Parkway, DOUGLASVILLE, GEORGIA, 30134
- **NAICS:** 238990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On March 17, 2025, an employee was reinstalling the top of a fire hydrant. As he was tightening/rotating it, it crushed his left little finger. The finger was amputated.

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