# Amputations at Sussek Machine Company, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2022098015` · 9/9/2022 · WATERLOO, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Nonclassifiable
## Employer
- **Name:** Sussek Machine Company, LLC
- **Location:** 805 Pierce Street, WATERLOO, WISCONSIN, 53594
- **NAICS:** 332710
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was conducting a torque test on a bearing when their finger was caught between the bearing housing and the bearing. The employee sustained a partial amputation to their right middle fingertip.

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