# Amputations at Northeast Contractors, Inc
> OSHA SIR `2016087980` · 8/24/2016 · EAST HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Wire, cables-nonelectrical
- **Secondary source:** Construction, logging, and mining machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Northeast Contractors, Inc
- **Location:** Pratt & Whitney Headquarters Project, EAST HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, 06108
- **NAICS:** 238990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An excavator was lifting a compactor out of an excavation. The cable that was used to lift the compactor slipped and an employee was repositioning the cable when his finger was caught between the cable and the compactor resulting in a fingertip amputation.

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