# Amputations at Braun Industries, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018088889` · 8/30/2018 · VAN WERT, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Boring, routing, notching machines
## Employer
- **Name:** Braun Industries, Inc.
- **Location:** 1170 Production Drive, VAN WERT, OHIO, 45891
- **NAICS:** 336112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was installing new spoil boards on a router. The vacuum actuated, and the employee's finger was crushed between two boards. He suffered a partial finger amputation with no bone loss.

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