# Amputations at Whirley Industries, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2019032979` · 3/21/2019 · WARREN, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
- **Source:** Presses, except printing, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Whirley Industries, Inc.
- **Location:** 403 Laurel Street, WARREN, PENNSYLVANIA, 16365
- **NAICS:** 326199
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was realigning two pieces of machinery on a press. An ejector plate retracted in the machinery, catching the employee's left hand and causing amputations to the index and middle fingertips.

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