# Amputations at Mold Rite Plastics
> OSHA SIR `2017021211` · 2/7/2017 · PLATTSBURGH, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Mold Rite Plastics
- **Location:** 1 Plant Street, PLATTSBURGH, NEW YORK, 12901
- **NAICS:** 326121
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working on a locked-out machine, which had a chain with slack. He then unlocked the machine and activated it. He was tapping the machine to see if it would speed up when his left distal finger was caught and partially amputated by the chain and sprocket.

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