# Amputations at Capital Overhead Door
> OSHA SIR `2017054238` · 5/10/2017 · SEWARD, NEBRASKA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Movable ladders, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Garage doors
## Employer
- **Name:** Capital Overhead Door
- **Location:** 604 Graham Park Dr, SEWARD, NEBRASKA, 68434
- **NAICS:** 238350
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was on a ladder, removing a vice grip from a garage door to open it. When the vice grip came off, the door rolled open and knocked him off the ladder. His right thumb was pinched and amputated between the door and the track.

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