# Amputations at Triple V Stores
> OSHA SIR `2019032553` · 3/9/2019 · TUSCALOOSA, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment
- **Source:** Butchering machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Triple V Stores
- **Location:** 641 Bear Creek Rd., TUSCALOOSA, ALABAMA, 35405
- **NAICS:** 445110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cutting meat with a bandsaw when it cut the tips of the employee's fingers, causing a thumb laceration and a partial amputation to the index finger.

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