# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Stow Docks, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025054630` · 5/16/2025 · BEMUS POINT, NEW YORK
## 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:** Piers, wharfs, water docks
- **Secondary source:** Workers engaging in team lift
## Employer
- **Name:** Stow Docks, Inc.
- **Location:** 4573 Sunset Bay Drive, BEMUS POINT, NEW YORK, 14712
- **NAICS:** 237990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee and another crew member were installing the head section of a dock in shallow water. The crew member was holding the front of the section and the employee was holding the back. As they slid and lowered the dock section into place onto stanchions, the employee's little finger was crushed between the stanchion and the dock section, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

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