# Amputations at Kansas Fencing Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2022065747` · 6/30/2022 · TOPEKA, KANSAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Gates
- **Secondary source:** Belts, gloves, neckties, scarves
## Employer
- **Name:** Kansas Fencing Inc.
- **Location:** 620 Northwest Gordon Street, TOPEKA, KANSAS, 66608
- **NAICS:** 238990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was adjusting an automated gate. The employee had loosened the roller when his glove got caught and his left hand was pulled into the drive chain causing the amputation of the index fingertip.

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