# Amputations at STANDLEY BATCH SYSTEMS, INC.
> OSHA SIR `20181010441` · 10/9/2018 · CAPE GIRARDEAU, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** STANDLEY BATCH SYSTEMS, INC.
- **Location:** 505 AQUAMSI ST., CAPE GIRARDEAU, MISSOURI, 63703
- **NAICS:** 332439
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating an iron worker machine to cut a flat bar when the bar flipped up, catching the employee's left thumb between the bar and machine and resulting in an amputation to the thumb.

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