# Amputations at Rexnord LLC
> OSHA SIR `2017043246` · 4/10/2017 · MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Rexnord LLC
- **Location:** 5101 W. Beloit Rd., MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, 53214
- **NAICS:** 333613
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was setting up a hydraulic pull tester station (5000 lbs. capacity). A plastic chain product was put under tension. While the employee was adjusting some locking washers with a spanner wrench, the plastic chain snapped and the employee's left middle fingertip was caught and amputated between the washer and a table.

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