# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at C. W. Bill Young VA Medical Center
> OSHA SIR `2024076831` · 7/27/2024 · CAPE CORAL, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Heating, cooling, cleaning, and waste handling machinery  n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Machine guards
## Employer
- **Name:** C. W. Bill Young VA Medical Center
- **Location:** 2489 Diplomat Parkway East, CAPE CORAL, FLORIDA, 33909
- **NAICS:** 923140
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was on a 10-foot ladder replacing a fan motor on an HVAC system. While removing the guard to facilitate maintenance, the guard slipped. As the employee tired to grab it, their left hand fingers were caught between the belt and pulley resulting in a partial amputation of the little finger and fractures and lacerations to the middle and ring fingers.

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