# Amputations at RIMCO PLASTIC CORPORATION
> OSHA SIR `2015053163` · 5/26/2015 · HORSEHEADS, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** RIMCO PLASTIC CORPORATION
- **Location:** 316 COLONIAL DRIVE, HORSEHEADS, NEW YORK, 14845
- **NAICS:** 326199
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was setting up the in-line vacuum forming machine line. The guard was off at the time of the incident and the interlock held down with a clamp. At the trim press stage, the employee came in contact with the steel rule die and amputated the index and middle fingers on the right hand.

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