# Amputations at Metal Matic, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2021032703` · 3/31/2021 · MIDDLETOWN, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Metal Matic, Inc.
- **Location:** 1701 Made Indistrial Dr, MIDDLETOWN, OHIO, 45044
- **NAICS:** 331210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

At about 9:00 a.m. on March 31, 2021, an employee was using an overhead crane to pick up steel tubing to put it into a tube cutter machine. As the employee reached to remove a tag affixed to the tubing, his left middle fingertip was amputated by the guide gate of the tube cutter.

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