911 mixup costs victim his finger

Two men lost fingers in separate Manhattan accidents yesterday — but the addresses were so similar that FDNY dispatchers assumed the second call was a mistake and never sent an ambulance, The Post has leaned.

By the time the second victim, Anthony Delgaudio, 43, got to the hospital, it was too late to reattach the left pinky, and now his family is demanding an explanation.

“It sucks. It’s absolutely frustrating,” said his wife, Dina. “What if he was by himself ? He couldn’t have drove himself to the hospital.

“He could have bled to death. I don’t know what they need to do, but they need to something to improve it.”

The first call to 911 came in at 11:34 a.m., reporting that a man had suffered a severed finger at 2371 Second Ave., which is in Harlem.

An ambulance was dispatched and the 44yearold victim was treated at Metropolitan Hospital Center.

Five minutes after that call, someone else dialed 911 to report a man with a severed finger at 1271 Second Ave., which is the Beekman Theatre on the Upper East Side.

Dispatchers believed that call was a mistake because both calls were about severed fingers and because the two addresses are similar — and so they did not send out a second ambulance, sources said.

Records show there were multiple calls asking the status of the ambulance and for an estimated wait time, the last coming after 20 minutes.

Five minutes later, cops from the 19th Precinct gave up and transported Delgaudio to New York Hospital.

Even though the finger was kept on ice, it was too late to reattach, according to sources.

Delgaudio, who is from Mahopac, is a plumber for Evergreen Mechanical Corp. and was working in the theater when “he slipped and his hand went into some type of machinery,” according his wife, Dina.

Delgaudio’s partner quickly put the digit on ice and then alerted the injured man’s spouse.

“I got a call from his partner saying he was in an accident and that he would call me back to let me know which hospital he’s at,” the wife said. “Fortyfive minutes later, I get a call back saying EMS never showed. There should be a better way.”

She said her husband is still in shock.

“I don’t think it hit him yet,” she said. “He’s a worker [that] works with his hands.”

Employees at the Beekman Theatre refused to comment on the accident.