# Amputations at U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
> OSHA SIR `2021021550` · 2/20/2021 · TAMPA, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Heating, cooling, and cleaning machinery and appliances, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
- **Location:** 13000 Bruce B Downs Blvd, TAMPA, FLORIDA, 33612
- **NAICS:** 622110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Two employees were conducting preventative maintenance on multiple air handling units. One employee was greasing the motor and fan bearings inside the end of a unit when his left pinky finger was caught and pinched between the belt and pulley resulting in a partial amputation of the distal phalanx.

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