# Amputations at Schuler-Haas Electric Corp
> OSHA SIR `2016087085` · 8/1/2016 · WEBSTER, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Bending, crimping machines
- **Secondary source:** Handtools-nonpowered, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Schuler-Haas Electric Corp
- **Location:** Xerox Building 224, WEBSTER, NEW YORK, 14580
- **NAICS:** 238210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was bending pipe when his thumb became pinched between the pipe and the bender shoe, amputating his thumb tip.

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