# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations, unspecified at AT & T Communications
> OSHA SIR `2015021076` · 2/3/2015 · DOUGLASVILLE, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations, unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Trenchers
- **Secondary source:** Trees
## Employer
- **Name:** AT & T Communications
- **Location:** Wedgefield Court, DOUGLASVILLE, GEORGIA, 30133
- **NAICS:** 238210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was walking behind a ditch witch, digging a ditch for underground fiber optic lines.  The equipment hit a rut in the ground and fell to the side, trapping the employee's right hand between the controls and a tree.  The right thumb was severely cut and was barely hanging on by two pieces of flesh.  The employee was transported and admitted to Grady hospital.

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