# Amputations at Diemolding Corporation
> OSHA SIR `20171111205` · 11/22/2017 · WAMPSVILLE, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Diemolding Corporation
- **Location:** 100 Donald Hicks Dew Drive, WAMPSVILLE, NEW YORK, 13163
- **NAICS:** 336340
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was clearing scrap from the exit end of a preformer machine when his middle finger was caught in the machine punch, cutting and amputating his fingertip. The machine was guarded at the time.

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