# Amputations at APX Enclosures, Incorporated
> OSHA SIR `2021053870` · 5/11/2021 · GREENCASTLE, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Boring, drilling, planing, milling machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** APX Enclosures, Incorporated
- **Location:** 9156 Molly Pitcher Highway, GREENCASTLE, PENNSYLVANIA, 17225
- **NAICS:** 332322
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a floor shaper to put a radius on plastic parts. When placing a part into the shaper bit area, the part kicked and dragged the employee's left hand into the shaper. The employee sustained a partial amputation of the left middle finger and lacerations and avulsions to the left ring finger.

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