# Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury at Meade Electric Company Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2015097174` · 9/28/2015 · CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Pipes, ducts, tubing, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Excavations, strip mines, and quarries (except confined space)
## Employer
- **Name:** Meade Electric Company Inc.
- **Location:** 5800 S. Damen Ave., CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, 60636
- **NAICS:** 238210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was helping to lower pipe into a shored trench when the employee's finger got caught between the pipe and one of the trench's shoring jacks.

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