# Amputations at Innovative Hearth Products
> OSHA SIR `2020043958` · 4/29/2020 · RUSSELLVILLE, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Skids, pallets
- **Secondary source:** Skids, pallets
## Employer
- **Name:** Innovative Hearth Products
- **Location:** 1769 Lawrence Street East, RUSSELLVILLE, ALABAMA, 35654
- **NAICS:** 333414
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was moving a parts table with two pallets stacked on top of each other when a pallet shifted, causing the employee's fingers to be caught between the two pallets. As a result, the employee sustained a left middle fingertip amputation.

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