# Amputations at Materion Advanced Materials Group Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017054104` · 5/5/2017 · BUFFALO, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Materion Advanced Materials Group Inc.
- **Location:** 2978 Main Street, BUFFALO, NEW YORK, 14214
- **NAICS:** 331492
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was replacing a belt on a motor fan assembly when his right index finger was caught between the belt and the pulley, amputating the fingertip tip to the first knuckle. The belt was unguarded at the time.

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