# Amputations at Hulcher Services, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20161211835` · 12/21/2016 · NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Cranes-other mobile cranes
## Employer
- **Name:** Hulcher Services, Inc.
- **Location:** 2900 Florida Ave., NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, 70117
- **NAICS:** 488210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was tearing down a side boom. While pulling the slack out of the load line, the employee's right hand was pulled into the guidewheels of the equipment, amputating the ring finger and partially amputating the middle and pinky fingers.

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