# Amputations at Timpte, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2015041819` · 4/7/2015 · DAVID CITY, NEBRASKA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Boring, drilling, planing, milling machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Timpte, Inc.
- **Location:** 1827 Industrial Road, DAVID CITY, NEBRASKA, 68632
- **NAICS:** 336212
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating the nose drill machine when he went around to the machine's back side. The drill caught his work glove and pulled his hand in, amputating his left ring fingertip (no bone included).

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