# Amputations at Advance Power & Lighting, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2017088070` · 8/22/2017 · CULLMAN, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Direct exposure to electricity, greater than 220 volts
- **Source:** Switchboards, switches, fuses
## Employer
- **Name:** Advance Power & Lighting, LLC
- **Location:** 1022 County Road 768, CULLMAN, ALABAMA, 35055
- **NAICS:** 237130
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee installed an insulator on a pole and was coming down from the pole using a boom lift when he saw something was not complete and went back up to the location where he was previously working. He then made contact with a switch, which sent an electrical current through the left side of his body and out through the right hand. His right hand was amputated.

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