# Amputations involving bone loss at Dakota Electric Service, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025032701` · 3/21/2025 · MENOMONIE, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
- **Source:** Other material and personnel handling machinery  n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Dakota Electric Service, Inc.
- **Location:** 2200 Stokke Parkway, MENOMONIE, WISCONSIN, 54751
- **NAICS:** 238210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On March 21, 2025, at approximately 10:15 AM, an employee was removing an electrical feeder wire from rigid conduit using a tugger/puller. One end of a rope was attached to the wire being pulled and the other end was wound around a powered capstan (cylinder/spindle). While pulling the wire, the employee's gloved right hand became caught in the rope and was pulled into the capstan, crushing their forearm. The employee was hospitalized with fractures to their right radius and ulna, as well as the amputation of their little finger.

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