# Amputations at Slidematic Precision Components, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2015020026` · 2/3/2015 · ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Slidematic Precision Components, Inc.
- **Location:** 1303 Samuelson Road, ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS, 61109
- **NAICS:** 332722
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On or about February 3, 2015 at approximately 4:15 p.m., an employee was performing set-up on a cold heading machine and while jogging the machine over, he reached into the machine while simultaneously stepping on the brake, causing his fingers to be caught in-between the punch and the die on the machine. The employee suffered two fractured fingers and a finger tip amputation.

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