# Amputations at United Launch Alliance, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2015041851` · 4/9/2015 · DECATUR, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Hooks, shackles, magnets, clamshells
## Employer
- **Name:** United Launch Alliance, LLC
- **Location:** 1001 Red Hat Road, DECATUR, ALABAMA, 35601
- **NAICS:** 336414
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was lowering a large hook onto a halo shackle used to move large manufactured parts. The employee was guiding the hook down with the left hand. As the hook reached the edge of the halo cable tray, the force of the hook landing on the cable tray caused an amputation of the left ring finger to the distal joint (below the nail bed).

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