Editing Amputation (section)

===Causes===
[[File:3372709503 10dc75d783 oSéquelleAmputation.jpg|thumb|170px|Private Lewis Francis was wounded July 21, 1861, at the [[First Battle of Bull Run]] by a bayonet to the knee.]]
Traumatic amputation is uncommon in humans (1 per 20,804 population per year). Loss of limb usually happens immediately during the accident, but sometimes a few days later after medical complications. Statistically, the most common causes of traumatic amputations are:<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-10-17 |title=Amputation |url=https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/amputation/ |access-date=2022-09-07 |website=nhs.uk |language=en}}</ref>
* Vehicle accidents (cars, motorcycles, bicycles, trains, etc.)
* Labor accidents (equipment, instruments, cylinders, chainsaws, press machines, meat machines, wood machines, etc.)
* Agricultural accidents, with machines and mower equipment
* Electric shock hazards
* Firearms, bladed weapons, explosives
* Violent rupture of ship rope or industry wire rope
* Ring traction (ring amputation, de-gloving injuries)
* Building doors and car doors
* Animal attacks
* Gas cylinder explosions<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=February 2011 |editor-last=Davison |editor-first=Ben |title=Scuba Tanks as Lethal Weapons |url=https://www.undercurrent.org/UCnow/dive_magazine/2011/LethalWeapons201102.html |url-status=live |magazine=Undercurrent |publication-place=Sausalito, California |volume=26 |issue=2 |pages=8–9 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210428060005/https://www.undercurrent.org/UCnow/dive_magazine/2011/LethalWeapons201102.html |archive-date=2021-04-28 |access-date=28 June 2021}}</ref>
* Other rare accidents<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Clasper |first1=Jon |last2=Ramasamy |first2=Arul |date=2013 |title=Traumatic amputations |journal=British Journal of Pain |volume=7 |issue=2 |pages=67–73 |doi=10.1177/2049463713487324 |issn=2049-4637 |pmc=4590129 |pmid=26516502}}</ref>