# Amputations at Daeil USA Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2015053270` · 5/29/2015 · VALLEY, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
- **Source:** Product testing, inspecting, and diagnostic machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Daeil USA Corporation
- **Location:** 1135 Towel Avenue, VALLEY, ALABAMA, 36854
- **NAICS:** 336111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working on the bubble-leak tester machine. The employee placed a part inside the machine and engaged it. The machine lowered the part into a water bath and then raised it. As the part lifted, it smashed the employee's middle finger, resulting in an amputation. The machine was not guarded at the time.

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