# Amputations at NABCO Electric Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2015085736` · 8/13/2015 · CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Pipes, ducts, tubing, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** NABCO Electric Company, Inc.
- **Location:** TVA Chickamauga Damn, CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE, 37416
- **NAICS:** 238210
- **Jurisdiction:** 0
## Narrative

An employee was getting into the side of a company van to sit on the floor to go to lunch. The employee touched a conduit that was stacked in the van, causing it to shift onto his hand and amputate his right index fingertip.

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