# Amputations at Yetter Manufacturing Company
> OSHA SIR `2016087518` · 8/11/2016 · COLCHESTER, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Band saws
## Employer
- **Name:** Yetter Manufacturing Company
- **Location:** 109 S. McDonough Street, COLCHESTER, ILLINOIS, 62326
- **NAICS:** 332999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On or about August 11, 2016, an employee was cutting steel bar stock on a band saw when the employee's left index finger was caught between the band saw stop and the bar stock as a vertical vice closed to secure the bar stock. The distal phalange on the finger had to be surgically amputated.

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