# Amputations at Confortaire, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017098939` · 9/18/2017 · TUPELO, MISSISSIPPI
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Sealing, stapling machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Confortaire, Inc.
- **Location:** 2133 South Veterans Blvd, TUPELO, MISSISSIPPI, 38804
- **NAICS:** 326140
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a press to seal a plastic bag around a pillow when the press' heat sealer compression bar amputated the employee's left first fingertip.

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