# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at E.E. Cruz & Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025043490` · 4/14/2025 · HOBOKEN, NEW JERSEY
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
- **Source:** Beams and rails  metal
- **Secondary source:** Rivets, bolts
## Employer
- **Name:** E.E. Cruz & Company, Inc.
- **Location:** 50 Harrison Street, HOBOKEN, NEW JERSEY, 07030
- **NAICS:** 237310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was disconnecting and unscrewing a spinner and a J-bolt from a suspended 80- to 100-pound steel waler. The waler slipped and the employee's left thumb was pinched between the waler's flange and the J-bolt, resulting in amputation of the thumb tip.

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