# Amputations at Environmental Field Services, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2016065143` · 6/10/2016 · JOPPA, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Tool parts, accessories, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Environmental Field Services, Inc.
- **Location:** 16192 Alabama 69, JOPPA, ALABAMA, 35087
- **NAICS:** 238110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was reinstalling a cutting shoe on a direct push tube soil sampling rod. The dual tube rod slid out of the tensioner that was being used to hold it up and fell back down the bore hole, amputating the employee's right index finger below the first knuckle.

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