# Amputations at Lavelle Industries, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2020010476` · 1/16/2020 · BURLINGTON, WISCONSIN
## 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:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Lavelle Industries, Inc.
- **Location:** 665 McHenry St., BURLINGTON, WISCONSIN, 53105
- **NAICS:** 326299
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was guiding a top mold plate down to connect to a bottom mold plate when the employee's fingertip was caught and amputated between the two plates.

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