# Amputations at Chinle Comprehensive Health Care Facility
> OSHA SIR `20171111251` · 11/26/2017 · CHINLE, ARIZONA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level, unspecified
- **Source:** Cooling and humidifying machinery and appliances, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Chinle Comprehensive Health Care Facility
- **Location:** U.S. 191, CHINLE, ARIZONA, 86503
- **NAICS:** 622110
- **Jurisdiction:** 0
## Narrative

An employee was on top of an air handler, troubleshooting it. As he came down, he twisted his ankle and fell on the cover of the air handler's pulley/belt drive, knocking the cover off of the rotating pulley system. Two of his fingers were then caught and amputated in the rotating pulley system.

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