# Amputations at PLZ AEROSCIENCE
> OSHA SIR `2020011043` · 1/31/2020 · PACIFIC, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** PLZ AEROSCIENCE
- **Location:** 1100 Integram Drive, PACIFIC, MISSOURI, 63069
- **NAICS:** 325998
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was reaching into a tuber machine to clean a tape cutting blade when the machine cycled and the employee sustained a left index fingertip amputation.

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