# Amputations at Magnaform Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2016087999` · 8/25/2016 · VAN BUREN, ARKANSAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **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:** Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Magnaform Corporation
- **Location:** 2685 S 4th, VAN BUREN, ARKANSAS, 72956
- **NAICS:** 326199
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was removing a tray that was stuck to the mold in the GN pressure former when the die on the GN pressure former came down on the employee's right thumb, amputating half of the thumb.

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