# Amputations at NOVA Chemicals Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2016010420` · 1/15/2016 · MONACA, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Heating and cooking machinery and appliances, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** NOVA Chemicals Inc.
- **Location:** 400 Frankfort Road, MONACA, PENNSYLVANIA, 15061
- **NAICS:** 325199
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

The employee was attempting to line up the holes of the heat exchanger with the holes in the heat exchanger support structure to reinstall the bolts that hold it together. The heat exchanger moved and caught his left thumb in a pinch point resulting in a partial amputation.

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