# Amputations at Cast-Pac, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2019055173` · 5/22/2019 · ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Product assembly machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Cast-Pac, Inc.
- **Location:** 206 Cascade Drive, ALLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA, 18109
- **NAICS:** 561910
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was loading a coupling into an assembler when the employee's right index fingertip entered the pinch point as the machine cycled, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

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