# Amputations at SPX Transformer Solutions, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2020087734` · 8/16/2020 · WAUKESHA, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Cranes-gantry, overhead, monorail, container
## Employer
- **Name:** SPX Transformer Solutions, Inc.
- **Location:** 400 South Prairie Avenue, WAUKESHA, WISCONSIN, 53186
- **NAICS:** 335311
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee had attached crane rigging to a transformer coil and was adjusting an outrigger block. The crane activated and the employee's left thumb was caught between the crane block and the rigging. The thumb tip was amputated.

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