# Amputations involving bone loss at TK Elevator Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2025032910` · 3/28/2025 · DOWNERS GROVE, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Entangled in non-running object
- **Source:** Wire, cables nonelectrified
- **Secondary source:** Gloves, handguards  except disposable, electric insulating
## Employer
- **Name:** TK Elevator Corporation
- **Location:** 3600 Lacey Road Ste 100, DOWNERS GROVE, ILLINOIS, 60515
- **NAICS:** 811490
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was in an elevator pit working on the hoisting cables and compensator sheave. He moved the cables back onto the sheave groves. One of the cables spun, twisted out of the grove, grabbed his glove, and pulled his hand into the sheave. The tip of his right thumb was caught under a cable and was amputated approximately at the knuckle just below the nail.

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