# Avulsions, enucleations without bone loss at Charter Steel Company
> OSHA SIR `2025066213` · 6/27/2025 · CUYAHOGA HEIGHTS, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Avulsions, enucleations without bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by other falling object  n.e.c.
- **Source:** Cranes  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Material and personnel handling machinery  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Charter Steel Company
- **Location:** 4300 E. 49th St., CUYAHOGA HEIGHTS, OHIO, 44127
- **NAICS:** 331111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On June 27, 2025, around 2:00 a.m., a Charter Steel mechanical maintenance technician was changing the northeast wheel on the east outside billet yard crane. While the crane was locked out and lifted with a portable hydraulic device, the tech rotated the drive wheel by hand. The lifting device failed, causing the crane to fall and crush the employee s left-hand fingers against the crane wheel. This resulted in partial amputation of the middle and ring fingertips (through the nail with no bone loss) and a laceration with tendon involvement to the index finger.

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