# Amputations at Thompson Tractor Co.
> OSHA SIR `2017109859` · 10/13/2017 · CANTONMENT, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Backhoes, trackhoes
## Employer
- **Name:** Thompson Tractor Co.
- **Location:** Escambia County Solid Waste, CANTONMENT, FLORIDA, 32533
- **NAICS:** 532490
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was wearing gloves while replacing a track tensioner on an excavator when his right hand was caught between the machine's track adjuster and the metal tracks, amputating his middle fingertip without bone loss.

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