# Amputations at Rubber-Seal Products, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2015107730` · 10/16/2015 · DAYTON, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Bottling, canning, filling machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Rubber-Seal Products, Inc.
- **Location:** 5751 Webster St., DAYTON, OHIO, 45414
- **NAICS:** 325212
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was reassembling and calibrating  the Cherry Burrell Machine and leaned under the machine while it was running.  The employee's hand slipped into the point of operation amputating the right hand index fingertip.

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