# Amputations at TABER EXTRUSIONS, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2017065221` · 6/8/2017 · GULFPORT, MISSISSIPPI
## 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:** Extruding machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** TABER EXTRUSIONS, LLC
- **Location:** 1900 34TH STREET, GULFPORT, MISSISSIPPI, 39501
- **NAICS:** 331316
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was removing a block from an extruder vise when the employee's left ring finger was caught and crushed between the block and the vise. The finger had to be surgically amputated.

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