# Amputations involving bone loss at Action Carting Environmental Services Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025043616` · 4/18/2025 · BROOKLYN, NEW YORK
## 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:** Garbage trucks
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Action Carting Environmental Services Inc.
- **Location:** 635 Gateway Drive, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, 11239
- **NAICS:** 562111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was lifting a 2-yard container to dump it into a truck when the container shifted and crushed the employee's left hand against the side of the truck, resulting in an open fracture and dislocation that required hospitalization and the surgical amputation of the little finger.

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