# Amputations at Prevention Maintenance Medical Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2015030893` · 3/2/2015 · COLUMBUS, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Lighting equipment, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Prevention Maintenance Medical Inc.
- **Location:** 1492 East Broad Street, COLUMBUS, OHIO, 43205
- **NAICS:** 811310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee's right index fingertip was amputated on March 3, 2014. The employee was taking down operating room lights at OSU East Hospital. When the employee went to set the light down on the ground, a spring snapped on the light and caught the employee's finger.

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