# Amputations involving bone loss at De Giulio Kitchen Design, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025088079` · 8/14/2025 · BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object  unspecified
- **Source:** Plates, slabs  concrete and stone
- **Secondary source:** Source, secondary source  unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** De Giulio Kitchen Design, Inc.
- **Location:** 191 Commonwealth Ave., BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, 02116
- **NAICS:** 236118
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees were setting a piece of stone backsplash (about 4 by 5 feet) in a kitchen at a residential job site. The piece fell and caught an employee's left middle finger against a countertop. The fingertip, about half to three-quarters of an inch, was amputated.

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