# Amputations at Lex Products, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2021119481` · 11/2/2021 · SHELTON, CONNECTICUT
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Lex Products, LLC
- **Location:** 11 Forest Parkway, SHELTON, CONNECTICUT, 06484
- **NAICS:** 423690
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating an overmold machine. The machine's table moved while the employee's right index finger was in a hole for the mold, causing the amputation of the fingertip at the first joint.

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