# Amputations at Urban Foundation Engineering
> OSHA SIR `2018076852` · 7/9/2018 · NEW YORK, NEW YORK
## 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:** Drums, pulleys, sheaves
## Employer
- **Name:** Urban Foundation Engineering
- **Location:** 315 E. 46th St, NEW YORK, NEW YORK, 10017
- **NAICS:** 237990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was signaling for a load to be brought up. The employee's finger was caught between the load line and the sheave of the block, and the employee suffered an amputation of the little finger on the left hand.

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