# Amputations at El Paso Veterans Affairs (VA) Health Care System
> OSHA SIR `2017043605` · 4/23/2017 · EL PASO, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Heating, cooling, and cleaning machinery and appliances, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** El Paso Veterans Affairs (VA) Health Care System
- **Location:** 5001 N. Piedras, EL PASO, TEXAS, 79930
- **NAICS:** 622110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee responded to an alarm in the mechanical room. He noticed a loose belt flapping and turned off the motor to adjust the belt on the air handler. When he went to inspect the belt, his finger was caught between the spinning belt and pulley 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*