# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Home Depot U.S.A., Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025088058` · 8/14/2025 · PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed between running equipment and other object(s)
- **Source:** Hoists, lifts  scissor, telescoping
- **Secondary source:** Shelves, shelving, racks
## Employer
- **Name:** Home Depot U.S.A., Inc.
- **Location:** 3550 William Penn Hwy, PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA, 15235
- **NAICS:** 444110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was raising an electric ladder to retrieve merchandise from overhead racking. As it rose, the railing of the machine caught his right middle finger against the bottom of the high bay netting supports, causing an amputation just below the fingernail.

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