# Amputations at Hillcrest Medical Center
> OSHA SIR `2022032056` · 3/7/2022 · TULSA, OKLAHOMA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Stretchers, backboards, wheeled cots, stair chairs
## Employer
- **Name:** Hillcrest Medical Center
- **Location:** 1120 S. Utica Avenue, TULSA, OKLAHOMA, 74104
- **NAICS:** 621111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was moving a patient onto a CT table. As he lowered the head of the patient's stretcher, his left index finger got caught in the stretcher's handle mechanism when it broke. The fingertip was partially amputated.

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