# Amputations at Cort Furniture Rentals
> OSHA SIR `2015010518` · 1/16/2015 · HOUSTON, TEXAS
## 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:** Sofas
- **Secondary source:** Handrails, banisters
## Employer
- **Name:** Cort Furniture Rentals
- **Location:** 1301 Wood Hollow Drive, HOUSTON, TEXAS, 77057
- **NAICS:** 442110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employee was part of a two-man team moving furniture from a customer's location. Employees were moving a large sleep sofa to the ground level when the sofa came into contact with a metal stair rail. The injured employee's finger was between the two objects at one point, and when they came together, they severed the employee's finger below the first joint.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*