# Amputations at Production Tube Cutting, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018065328` · 6/1/2018 · DAYTON, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Production Tube Cutting, Inc.
- **Location:** 1100 South Smithfield Road, DAYTON, OHIO, 45403
- **NAICS:** 331210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was picking a piece of emery cloth out from between the roller and arbor of a tube cutting machine when the employee's right thumb was caught between the roller and arbor. The employee pulled the thumb back, and the nail and some skin were partially amputated.

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