# Amputations at EJ-Ardmore Foundry, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20171211889` · 12/14/2017 · ARDMORE, OKLAHOMA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Metalworking lathes
## Employer
- **Name:** EJ-Ardmore Foundry, Inc.
- **Location:** 270 Redwing Road, ARDMORE, OKLAHOMA, 73401
- **NAICS:** 332999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On December 14, 2017, at about 10:35 p.m., an employee was rotating a manhole cover on a vertical turret lathe when his gloved right ring finger was caught between the part and the machine head. His right ring finger distal phalanx was surgically amputated.

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