# Amputations at Hwaseung Automotive USA, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2020109695` · 10/12/2020 · ENTERPRISE, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Hwaseung Automotive USA, LLC
- **Location:** 101 Development Dr, ENTERPRISE, ALABAMA, 36330
- **NAICS:** 336390
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee loaded a part onto the forming machine and activated the machine using the two hand activation buttons. The machine pushed the pipe and the pipe touched the proximity switch which signals the machine to lower the pipe holding parts, but the holding parts did not come down. The employee was adjusting the pipe when the holding parts came down and amputated the index and middle fingers on their left hand.

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