# Amputations at Scottsbluff Star-Herald
> OSHA SIR `20191111523` · 11/5/2019 · SCOTTSBLUFF, NEBRASKA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Presses-printing
- **Secondary source:** Brooms, mops, and other cleaning tools
## Employer
- **Name:** Scottsbluff Star-Herald
- **Location:** 1405 Broadway, SCOTTSBLUFF, NEBRASKA, 69361
- **NAICS:** 511110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning the guard of a press machine with a rag when the rollers of the machine caught the corner of the rag and dragged the employee's right middle finger, resulting in a degloving injury from the distal interphalangeal joint to the tip of the finger. The employee's fingertip had to be surgically amputated.

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