# Amputations at Marine Acquisition Corporation US
> OSHA SIR `2015041775` · 4/6/2015 · LIMERICK, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Product testing, inspecting, and diagnostic machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Marine Acquisition Corporation US
- **Location:** 640 N. Lewis Road, LIMERICK, PENNSYLVANIA, 19468
- **NAICS:** 335314
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was feeding cable into the nut tester machine, which has crimp jaws. He held the cable with his left hand and used his right hand to hit the two-hand control, causing the crimping jaws to amputate his middle fingertip.

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