# Amputations at Cooper Tire & Rubber Company
> OSHA SIR `2022119959` · 11/12/2022 · TUPELO, MISSISSIPPI
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Skids, pallets
- **Secondary source:** Conveyors-powered, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Cooper Tire & Rubber Company
- **Location:** 1804 South Green Street, TUPELO, MISSISSIPPI, 38804
- **NAICS:** 326211
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was pushing an empty metal skid onto a skid conveyor. His right index finger was pinched between the skid and the skid holder, and the fingertip was amputated.

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