# Amputations at American Residential Services, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2017053921` · 5/1/2017 · LA VISTA, NEBRASKA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Air conditioning units
## Employer
- **Name:** American Residential Services, LLC
- **Location:** 6363 John Pershing Dr., LA VISTA, NEBRASKA, 68128
- **NAICS:** 238220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was servicing an A/C unit with a clamp-on amp meter. He removed the cover to test the A/C when his left middle fingertip was caught and amputated (no bone loss) between a belt and pulley.

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