# Amputations at Instrument Transformers, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2016032579` · 3/28/2016 · CLEARWATER, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Special process machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Instrument Transformers, LLC
- **Location:** 1907 Calumet St, CLEARWATER, FLORIDA, 33765
- **NAICS:** 335311
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

While diagnosing a vacuum system, an employee removed an exhaust filter to access a vacuum port with his right thumb. The ball valve actuated while his thumb was in the port, amputating his thumb tip.

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