# Amputations at Westgate Products LTD
> OSHA SIR `20181010516` · 10/11/2018 · OSHKOSH, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
- **Source:** Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Westgate Products LTD
- **Location:** 50 W Fernau Ave, OSHKOSH, WISCONSIN, 54901
- **NAICS:** 326112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working on a PNC forming machine when the employee made contact with the grinding wheel on the machine, resulting in amputations to the right index fingertip and thumb tip. The machine was not locked out at the time of the incident.

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