# Amputations at Jefferson Industries Corporation
> OSHA SIR `20190910225` · 9/30/2019 · WEST JEFFERSON, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Nonclassifiable
## Employer
- **Name:** Jefferson Industries Corporation
- **Location:** 6670 State Route 29, WEST JEFFERSON, OHIO, 43162
- **NAICS:** 336399
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was changing over a jig cart. The lock pin to hold the jig in place would not advance through the plate on the jig. When the lock pin became unstuck it crushed the employee's right middle fingertip resulting in an amputation.

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