# Amputations at Vanex Tube Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2020087532` · 8/10/2020 · NILES, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Vanex Tube Corporation
- **Location:** 301 Mckees Lane, NILES, OHIO, 44446
- **NAICS:** 331110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was trying to dislodge scrap from the exit end of a scrap chute. The scrap chopper in the chute amputated the tip of his left ring finger above the first knuckle.

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