# Amputations at Corning Incorporated
> OSHA SIR `2019021750` · 2/15/2019 · KENNEBUNK, MAINE
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Machinery, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Brooms, mops, and other cleaning tools
## Employer
- **Name:** Corning Incorporated
- **Location:** 2 Alfred Road, KENNEBUNK, MAINE, 04043
- **NAICS:** 326199
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was performing preventive maintenance on a machine. He was lubricating the pulley chain using a rag when the machine cycled and the rag and his right hand were pulled into the pulley chain causing two fingertip amputations.

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