# Amputations at Kroger Limited Partnership 1
> OSHA SIR `2016021486` · 2/17/2016 · LAUREL, MISSISSIPPI
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Chairs
## Employer
- **Name:** Kroger Limited Partnership 1
- **Location:** 2340 Highway 15 North, LAUREL, MISSISSIPPI, 39440
- **NAICS:** 424490
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was on break and eating lunch in the store deli. She was seated in a chair that had a loose seat bottom.  While scooting her chair closer to the table, she got her right ring finger caught between the loose seat bottom and the chair's frame. When she sat back down she tore the flesh off the distal joint of her right ring finger. She was transported to the local hospital where doctors had to amputate the distal joint.

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