# Amputations involving bone loss at NYSEG
> OSHA SIR `2025055088` · 5/29/2025 · LANCASTER, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
- **Source:** Drums, pulleys, sheaves
- **Secondary source:** Gloves, handguards  except disposable, electric insulating
## Employer
- **Name:** NYSEG
- **Location:** 150 Erie St (office), LANCASTER, NEW YORK, 14086
- **NAICS:** 221122
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was assisting with an operation that was pulling in an underground wire. The employee was guiding a rope through a capstan when their gloved right hand was pulled into the capstan for approximately 1/3 of a rotation. The employee's right index fingertip was crushed and surgically amputated to the first joint.

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