# Amputations at EATON CORPORATION
> OSHA SIR `2022021471` · 2/15/2022 · KEARNEY, NEBRASKA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Product testing, inspecting, and diagnostic machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** EATON CORPORATION
- **Location:** 4200 HIGHWAY 30 EAST, KEARNEY, NEBRASKA, 68848
- **NAICS:** 522130
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was attempting to retrieve valves that had fallen below the carriage of an eddy current tester. When he retrieved the valve the carriage of the test machine amputated his left little fingertip.

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