# Amputations at Parco Manufacturing, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20191111907` · 11/15/2019 · EAU CLAIRE, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Welding machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Parco Manufacturing, Inc.
- **Location:** 3819 White Ave., EAU CLAIRE, WISCONSIN, 54703
- **NAICS:** 326199
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

At 8:00 a.m. on November 15, 2019, an employee was putting a vinyl sash into a fusion welder. The employee's right little finger was caught and pinched between the vinyl sash and the clamping plate and the fingertip was amputated.

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