# Amputations at Timken Products
> OSHA SIR `2021075688` · 7/12/2021 · SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Timken Products
- **Location:** 2601 W Battlefield RD, SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI, 65807
- **NAICS:** 326220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was loading a machine with product. The employee's right middle finger was caught in a nip area on a pulley, causing the amputation of the fingertip.

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