# Amputations at Multiband Field Services, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017054806` · 5/30/2017 · SOUTHAVEN, MISSISSIPPI
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
- **Source:** Shovels
## Employer
- **Name:** Multiband Field Services, Inc.
- **Location:** 9054 Belmont Cove, SOUTHAVEN, MISSISSIPPI, 38671
- **NAICS:** 517919
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was installing a fence post for a pole-mounted satellite dish. He was pouring concrete into the hole and mixing it with a shovel when his right middle finger was smashed between the shovel handle and top of the fence post. His fingertip had to be surgically amputated.

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