# Amputations at OPS Sales Company
> OSHA SIR `20211210598` · 12/9/2021 · DEWEY, OKLAHOMA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** OPS Sales Company
- **Location:** 14861 N 3980 Rd, DEWEY, OKLAHOMA, 74029
- **NAICS:** 331210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was threading a flat bar machine when slack got into the coil line. As the employee reached to fix the coil, his gloved left hand got pulled into the metal flat bar coil. The employee's left index fingertip was crushed in the machine, resulting in medical amputation of the fingertip including the loss of bone.

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