# Amputations at EMJ and Company
> OSHA SIR `2019088729` · 8/22/2019 · KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Band saws
## Employer
- **Name:** EMJ and Company
- **Location:** 1800 Universal Avenue, KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, 64120
- **NAICS:** 332313
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cutting material with a band saw. He turned off the band saw to straighten the material in the vice. When he pushed the button to close the vice, his left middle finger was still in the vice as it closed, resulting in an amputation of his finger to the first knuckle.

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