# Amputations at United Launch Alliance
> OSHA SIR `2017032376` · 3/15/2017 · CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Drums, pulleys, sheaves
## Employer
- **Name:** United Launch Alliance
- **Location:** 16255 Phillips Pkwy., CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA, 32920
- **NAICS:** 336411
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was assisting other employees to raise a tower. When he placed his hand on a cable to provide tension on it to aide in the operation, his right hand contacted a pulley and sustained a partial amputation of the pinky finger.

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