# Amputations at American Airlines, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2016088095` · 8/29/2016 · CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Airplane-powered fixed wing, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** American Airlines, Inc.
- **Location:** 1000 W. O'HARE, O'HARE INTERN. AIRPORT, TERMINAL 1, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, 60666
- **NAICS:** 481111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was lowering an aircraft door and caught a finger in the track amputating one half of his left index finger.

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