# Amputations at Valk Manufacturing Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018021519` · 2/13/2018 · NEW KINGSTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Valk Manufacturing Company, Inc.
- **Location:** 66 E Main Street, NEW KINGSTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA, 17072
- **NAICS:** 333120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a burn table with a pneumatic clamp when the clamp crushed his left index finger resulting in amputation of about 1/3 of the fingertip.

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