# Amputations involving bone loss at Atlas Industrial Services, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2024054232` · 5/14/2024 · THOMPSON, CONNECTICUT
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  irregular movement, kick back
- **Source:** Pile drivers, tamping machinery
- **Secondary source:** Drives, belts, chains
## Employer
- **Name:** Atlas Industrial Services, LLC
- **Location:** Route 395, THOMPSON, CONNECTICUT, 06277
- **NAICS:** 238990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was installing a guardrail near a power pounding unit when the drive shaft to the unit broke and his hand became caught between the boom on the pounder and the guardrail. This resulted in hospitalization and the surgical amputation of a finger.

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