# Amputations at Tower Laboratories, Ltd
> OSHA SIR `2022109381` · 10/26/2022 · CENTERBROOK, CONNECTICUT
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment
- **Source:** Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Tower Laboratories, Ltd
- **Location:** 8 Industrial Park Road, CENTERBROOK, CONNECTICUT, 06409
- **NAICS:** 334516
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was advancing a sheet of foil through the knife on a pouch packaging machine when the knife cut his left index finger. The employee sustained an approximately 4-millimeter fingertip amputation.

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