# Amputations at Mexico Plastic Company
> OSHA SIR `2015074619` · 7/13/2015 · MEXICO, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Extruding machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Mexico Plastic Company
- **Location:** 2000 West Boulevard, MEXICO, MISSOURI, 65265
- **NAICS:** 326112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An extrusion operator was removing an airshaft from the steel core on an extrusion plastic processing line with help from another employee. The steel core pinched off the tip of the operator's left middle finger. The injured employee was not hospitalized, but was treated in the emergency room.

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