# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Gudenkauf Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2025032564` · 3/18/2025 · BERKELEY SPRINGS, WEST VIRGINIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
- **Source:** Wire, cables nonelectrified
- **Secondary source:** Towers, poles  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Gudenkauf Corporation
- **Location:** 124 Indigo Bunting, BERKELEY SPRINGS, WEST VIRGINIA, 25411
- **NAICS:** 238210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working in bucket truck performing telecommunication maintenance. While the employee was tightening a lashing wire span, the strand slipped from the support clamp. The falling strand caused the lashing wire to sever the end of employee's left index fingertip, resulting in a partial amputation.

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