# Amputations at Colt's Plastics Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2021043595` · 4/30/2021 · DAYVILLE, CONNECTICUT
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **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:** Colt's Plastics Company, Inc.
- **Location:** 969 North Main Street, DAYVILLE, CONNECTICUT, 06241
- **NAICS:** 326199
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was removing a bad part out of the mold area of a compression molding machine when the mold closed on his left hand resulting in the complete amputation of one finger and the partial amputation of another.

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