# Amputations at Southern Heat Exchanger Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2020087330` · 8/4/2020 · TUSCALOOSA, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Parts and materials, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Southern Heat Exchanger Corporation
- **Location:** 6100 Old Montgomery HWY, TUSCALOOSA, ALABAMA, 35405
- **NAICS:** 332410
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was setting up a small tube-sheet. A 3-foot plastic block slipped from underneath the tube-sheet, causing the tube-sheet to fall on the employee's right little finger. The employee suffered a soft-tissue amputation to the fingertip.

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