# Amputations at Heil Environmental
> OSHA SIR `2021108770` · 10/12/2021 · FORT PAYNE, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Parts and materials, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Heil Environmental
- **Location:** 106 45th Street, NE, FORT PAYNE, ALABAMA, 35967
- **NAICS:** 336211
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was installing an empty cylinder onto an assembly body support bracket. The cylinder slipped and caught the employee's left index finger against the bracket. The employee suffered an amputation just below the nail.

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