# Amputations at Waupaca Foundry Inc. (Plant 2,3)
> OSHA SIR `2015053134` · 5/25/2015 · WAUPACA, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Waupaca Foundry Inc. (Plant 2,3)
- **Location:** 1955 Brunner Drive, WAUPACA, WISCONSIN, 54981
- **NAICS:** 331511
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee's right thumb was pinched between the pattern hanger bar and the base of the machine swing arm on a vertical molding machine.

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