# Amputations at Shannon Medical Center
> OSHA SIR `2023043006` · 4/5/2023 · SAN ANGELO, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **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:** Shannon Medical Center
- **Location:** 120 E Harris Avenue, SAN ANGELO, TEXAS, 76903
- **NAICS:** 622110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working on a vent on the roof. As they were changing a belt in an air handler system, their finger became pinched by the belt/pulley, resulting in a left ring finger amputation. The middle finger was injured as well.

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