# Amputations at Staiman Recycling Corp.
> OSHA SIR `2018088548` · 8/20/2018 · WILLIAMSPORT, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Staiman Recycling Corp.
- **Location:** 201 Hepburn St., WILLIAMSPORT, PENNSYLVANIA, 17701
- **NAICS:** 562920
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was changing blades on a granulator. While he was rotating the blade assembly to check the top clearance gap, the front tip of his right pinky finger became lodged between the rotating blade and stationary blade, resulting in a pinky fingertip amputation (no bone loss).

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