# Amputations involving bone loss at General Motors
> OSHA SIR `2025044008` · 4/29/2025 · WENTZVILLE, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
- **Source:** Boxes, crates, cartons
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** General Motors
- **Location:** 1500 East Route A, WENTZVILLE, MISSOURI, 63385
- **NAICS:** 336111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was moving a tool box when its top drawer started to open. While the employee was stabilizing the tool box and drawers, their left middle and ring fingertips were amputated through the nailbeds. The fingertips were surgically reattached.

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