# Amputations involving bone loss at Able Rigging Contractors
> OSHA SIR `2025054172` · 5/3/2025 · BROOKLYN, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Cranes tower, self-erecting, pillar, hammerhead
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Able Rigging Contractors
- **Location:** 329 Clarkson Ave, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, 11201
- **NAICS:** 238990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was breaking down a tower crane and removing the boom. His right hand was crushed between the boom as it was being lowered and the crane's turntable. The employee sustained a crushing injury to their hand and the amputation of the index finger.

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