# Amputations at Alabama Power Company
> OSHA SIR `2016098351` · 9/4/2016 · VANCE, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Boom truck, bucket or basket hoist truck
- **Secondary source:** Electric parts, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Alabama Power Company
- **Location:** Unknown, VANCE, ALABAMA, 35490
- **NAICS:** 221121
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was positioning the bucket on an aerial lift when his fingertip was caught between the bucket and a ceramic insulator that was hanging from the pole. He suffered a partial fingertip amputation of the left middle finger (distal phalanx).

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