# Amputations at ALPHA POINTE
> OSHA SIR `2018054741` · 5/15/2018 · KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
- **Source:** Plastic injection molding machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** ALPHA POINTE
- **Location:** 7501 PROSPECT AVE, KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, 64132
- **NAICS:** 813319
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working in a molding injection machine when the employee's right ring finger was pinched, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

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