# Amputations at Sunnen Products Company
> OSHA SIR `2015085966` · 8/20/2015 · MAPLEWOOD, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Sunnen Products Company
- **Location:** 7910 Manchester Road, MAPLEWOOD, MISSOURI, 63143
- **NAICS:** 333518
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was training a coworker on how to operate a CNC machine when she tried to adjust the clamp that holds the part being processed. The clamp is operated by a foot pedal on the floor. While adjusting the clamp, she inadvertently stepped on the foot pedal, activating the clamp and severing her right index and middle fingertips.  She required surgery.

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