# Amputations at Desco Machine Company LLC
> OSHA SIR `2017032943` · 3/31/2017 · TWINSBURG, OHIO
## 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 regular operation
- **Source:** Metalworking lathes
- **Secondary source:** Textiles, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Desco Machine Company LLC
- **Location:** 1309 Case Parkway N, TWINSBURG, OHIO, 44087
- **NAICS:** 561499
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was polishing a shaft with an emery cloth while the shaft was spinning in a lathe when the emery cloth caught on a bur and pulled his right thumb into the machine, partially amputating it.

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