# Amputations at Havertys Furniture
> OSHA SIR `20211210344` · 12/2/2021 · DALLAS, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Cart, dolly, hand truck-nonpowered
- **Secondary source:** Sofas
## Employer
- **Name:** Havertys Furniture
- **Location:** 295 Spring Meadow Avenue, DALLAS, GEORGIA, 30132
- **NAICS:** 337125
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Three employees were unloading a reclining sofa from the back of a truck to the ground. One of them was trying to guide the process with a four-wheel hand truck. The hand truck rolled on uneven ground, and the employee's hand was caught between the bottom bracket of the sofa and the hand truck, resulting in the amputation of the end of the thumb.

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