# Amputations at Carpenter Technology
> OSHA SIR `2020043859` · 4/27/2020 · ORWIGSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Bending, rolling, shaping machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Carpenter Technology
- **Location:** 116 Pinedale Industrial Road, ORWIGSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA, 17961
- **NAICS:** 331110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was unjamming and realigning steel bars on a bar straightener. Her left hand was caught between a steel bar and a roller, and the middle fingertip was amputated.

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