# Amputations involving bone loss at United Seating and Mobility, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2025077244` · 7/24/2025 · TYBEE ISLAND, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling part of vehicle or machine, still attached
- **Source:** Vehicle and machine seats
- **Secondary source:** Wheelchairs, scooters  powered
## Employer
- **Name:** United Seating and Mobility, LLC
- **Location:** 7 Rosewood Avenue, TYBEE ISLAND, GEORGIA, 31328
- **NAICS:** 532283
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working on the tilt actuator of a powered wheelchair in a customer's home. The bolt slipped out of the actuator and the seat assembly fell down onto his right thumb, amputating it at the base of the fingernail.

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