# Amputations at Tennessee Valley Authority
> OSHA SIR `2016109454` · 10/6/2016 · CUMBERLAND CITY, TENNESSEE
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Pipes, ducts, tubing, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Cart, dolly, hand truck-nonpowered
## Employer
- **Name:** Tennessee Valley Authority
- **Location:** 815 Cumberland City Road, CUMBERLAND CITY, TENNESSEE, 37050
- **NAICS:** 221112
- **Jurisdiction:** 0
## Narrative

An employee was moving a piece of pipe on a cart when it shifted and crushed his right-hand middle and index fingers, fracturing both. The index finger above the first knuckle had to be surgically amputated.

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