# Amputations involving bone loss at VTCU, CORP.
> OSHA SIR `2025043422` · 4/12/2025 · POCATELLO, IDAHO
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
- **Source:** Stationary drills, milling machinery
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** VTCU, CORP.
- **Location:** 3770 Pole Line Road, POCATELLO, IDAHO, 83201
- **NAICS:** 335311
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a drill saw to drill key spacers. The drill caught his finger and pulled it in, severely lacerating and fracturing the fingertip. The fingertip was medically amputated to the first knuckle.

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