# Amputations at Veit & Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2015042228` · 4/21/2015 · WATERTOWN, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by swinging part of powered vehicle
- **Source:** Excavating machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Veit & Company, Inc.
- **Location:** 209 W. Main St, WATERTOWN, WISCONSIN, 53094
- **NAICS:** 237310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee suffered a thumb amputation while performing demolition work when an excavator pinned the employee's thumb between a wall and a tooth of the excavator bucket.

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