# Amputations at Game Time
> OSHA SIR `2019077557` · 7/24/2019 · FORT PAYNE, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Bending, crimping machines
## Employer
- **Name:** Game Time
- **Location:** 150 Playcore Drive SE, FORT PAYNE, ALABAMA, 35967
- **NAICS:** 238990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was assisting another associate in utilizing the large roll bender to bend 3-foot steel pipe. The employee's left index finger was caught in the machine and sustained an avulsion resulting in amputation to the first knuckle.

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