# Amputations at Precision Strip, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2020109715` · 10/12/2020 · MINSTER, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Grinders, abraders
## Employer
- **Name:** Precision Strip, Inc.
- **Location:** 86 S. Ohio Street, MINSTER, OHIO, 45865
- **NAICS:** 331221
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was setting up slitter knives to be sharpened on a knife grinder when their right middle finger was crushed between a level used to align the grinding wheel and the grinding wheel guard. The employee sustained amputation of their right middle finger between the first and second knuckle.

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