# Amputations at Woodruff Electric Cooperative Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2017043057` · 4/4/2017 · FORREST CITY, ARKANSAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Truck-motorized freight hauling and utility, n.e.c
## Employer
- **Name:** Woodruff Electric Cooperative Corporation
- **Location:** 3201 Highway 1 North, FORREST CITY, ARKANSAS, 72335
- **NAICS:** 221122
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was replacing switches on the outriggers of a digger derrick. After the employee replaced the switches he adjusted the outriggers. The employee placed a bolt in the access hole of the outrigger to adjust it and pulled the lever to raise it. As the outrigger came up, it caught his right middle finger between it and the bolt, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

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