# Amputations at Monongalia General Hospital
> OSHA SIR `2022075867` · 7/6/2022 · MORGANTOWN, WEST VIRGINIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Medical, surgical, x-ray machinery and equipment, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Monongalia General Hospital
- **Location:** 1200 JD Anderson Drive, MORGANTOWN, WEST VIRGINIA, 26505
- **NAICS:** 622110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was putting a tissue block in the clamp of a microtome when their left thumb was caught between the block and blade holder stage resulting in partial amputation of the left thumb without nail or bone loss.

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