# Amputations at Fuyao Glass America
> OSHA SIR `2019088821` · 8/25/2019 · MORAINE, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Fuyao Glass America
- **Location:** 800 Fuyao Avenue, MORAINE, OHIO, 45439
- **NAICS:** 423120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was transferring a PVB table from the PVB stretch machine when the middle fingertip on his left hand was compressed between the PVB table and the base of the table holding the PVB table. As a result, he sustained a left middle fingertip tissue amputation (no bone loss or removal of fingernail).

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