# Amputations at Anvil Attachments
> OSHA SIR `2015096782` · 9/16/2015 · SLAUGHTER, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Brake presses
## Employer
- **Name:** Anvil Attachments
- **Location:** 261 Highway 19, SLAUGHTER, LOUISIANA, 70777
- **NAICS:** 333120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was setting a die in the brake press. The employee was attempting to line up the upper holes when he depressed the foot pedal and the brake press lowered onto the employee's left hand thumb causing a fingertip amputation.

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