# Amputations at NICKLES BAKERY, INC.
> OSHA SIR `2017088203` · 8/25/2017 · MARTINS FERRY, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Food and beverage processing machinery-specialized, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** NICKLES BAKERY, INC.
- **Location:** 1000 BROADWAY STREET, MARTINS FERRY, OHIO, 43935
- **NAICS:** 311812
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was scraping the top of a machine with a small handheld scraper when the scraper fell into the machine. As the employee was trying to retrieve it, the machine's moving parts amputated the employee's right middle fingertip.

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