# Amputations at Marshalltown Company
> OSHA SIR `2022053922` · 5/5/2022 · FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Shearing machines
## Employer
- **Name:** Marshalltown Company
- **Location:** 2200 S. Industrial Drive, FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS, 72701
- **NAICS:** 332216
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was testing an assembly flooring shear by raising and lowering the blade to ensure it aligned with the base. The employee's middle and ring fingertips were amputated.

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