# Amputations at The Timken Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2018054265` · 5/2/2018 · NORTH CANTON, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **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:** The Timken Corporation
- **Location:** 4500 Mount Pleasant St NW #WHQ-03, NORTH CANTON, OHIO, 44720
- **NAICS:** 336510
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was hand feeding a piece of sheet metal into a roll forming machine when his right hand contacted the rolls, pulling his hand into the machine. Four of his right fingers were partially amputated.

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