# Amputations at Gage Personnel Services
> OSHA SIR `2018054659` · 5/14/2018 · READING, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Entangled in other object or equipment
- **Source:** Scrap, waste, debris, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Winders, unwinders
## Employer
- **Name:** Gage Personnel Services
- **Location:** Zip-Net, Inc., READING, PENNSYLVANIA, 19604
- **NAICS:** 561320
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was removing waste nylon from a winding machine when the nylon became caught on the moving spindle. The nylon then amputated the employee's left middle finger.

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