# Amputations at Perryman Company
> OSHA SIR `2022043431` · 4/20/2022 · HOUSTON, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **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:** Perryman Company
- **Location:** 2045 West Pike Street, HOUSTON, PENNSYLVANIA, 15342
- **NAICS:** 332999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

At about 11:00 a.m. on April 20, 2022, an employee was operating a bar turner machine. As he was closing the shield that covered the machine's spinning cutting heads, it caught his index finger. Part of the finger was medically amputated.

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