# Amputations at HARMONY CASTINGS, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2021054152` · 5/21/2021 · HARMONY, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** HARMONY CASTINGS, LLC
- **Location:** 251 PERRY HIGHWAY, HARMONY, PENNSYLVANIA, 16037
- **NAICS:** 331524
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was loading a casting into a core knockout machine. When the machine was activated, the casting slipped out of the clamps. The employee was trying to catch it when the clamps caught the tip of his left index finger. He suffered an amputation (without bone loss) to the fingertip.

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