# Amputations at Yazoo Mills, Incorporated
> OSHA SIR `2019055339` · 5/28/2019 · NEW OXFORD, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Paper production machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Yazoo Mills, Incorporated
- **Location:** 305 Commerce Street, NEW OXFORD, PENNSYLVANIA, 17350
- **NAICS:** 322214
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a re-cutter machine and turned it off to remove a piece of trim from the mandrel. The machine was not fully stopped before he began to remove the trim and the moving parts contacted his left hand, resulting in a partial left index finger amputation.

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