# Amputations at Pratt & Whitney
> OSHA SIR `2017043407` · 4/14/2017 · COLUMBUS, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Pratt & Whitney
- **Location:** 8801 Macon Road, COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, 31908
- **NAICS:** 336412
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was removing debris from a machine while waiting on the machine's cooling process to be completed. Due to a software error, the interlock system failed, allowing the machine's die to move and contact the employee's right thumb, which suffered an open fracture. The thump tip had to be medically amputated.

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