# Amputations at FirstEnergy Service Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2018099935` · 9/25/2018 · CANONSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Push-pull rams-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** FirstEnergy Service Corporation
- **Location:** 40 Curry Avenue, CANONSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA, 15317
- **NAICS:** 221112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees were using two 10-ton hydraulic rams in disassembling a sump pump. The rams slipped from position, hitting an employee's left thumb and causing a comminuted distal phalanx fracture. The thumb was subsequently amputated at the base of the nail.

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