# Amputations at Brittany Global Technologies Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2015129850` · 12/19/2015 · NEW BEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Textile, apparel, leather production machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Brittany Global Technologies Corporation
- **Location:** 1357 East Rodney French Boulevard, NEW BEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS, 02744
- **NAICS:** 313310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A worker was cleaning the chain of a tenter frame machine. A second worker was jogging the machine for the first worker. The first worker's right hand was caught in the machine resulting in the amputation of the index fingertip.

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