# Amputations at Discovery Plastics, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2015074483` · 7/9/2015 · MIAMI, OKLAHOMA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Discovery Plastics, LLC
- **Location:** 3607 28th Avenue N.E., MIAMI, OKLAHOMA, 74354
- **NAICS:** 326199
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee amputated the left middle fingertip when he tried to clear a clog on machine #4.  He applied pressure to the foot pedal of the machine which actuated a machine part cutting off the tip of his finger.

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