# Amputations at HARRIS CORPORATION
> OSHA SIR `2017043325` · 4/12/2017 · PALM BAY, FLORIDA
## 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:** Containers-pressurized, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Cart, dolly, hand truck-nonpowered
## Employer
- **Name:** HARRIS CORPORATION
- **Location:** 2400 PALM BAY ROAD NE, BLDG. 3-A, PALM BAY, FLORIDA, 32905
- **NAICS:** 334511
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was transporting a container of liquid nitrogen on a dolly. Upon entering a building the container fell off the dolly and pinched the employee's finger between it and the dolly resulting in a left index finger amputation at the tip of the distal interphalangeal joint.

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