# Amputations at FABCON PRECAST, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2022076138` · 7/14/2022 · SELKIRK, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Casting machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** FABCON PRECAST, LLC
- **Location:** 123 County Route 101, SELKIRK, NEW YORK, 12158
- **NAICS:** 238110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was training a new operator to transverse (cross) a casting machine. The machine's wheels were lowered to the transverse track while the employee was reaching under the wheel assembly to remove debris from the track. The wheels crushed the fingers of his right hand, causing amputations to the index, middle, and ring fingertips.

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