# Amputations at Owen Electric Company, INC
> OSHA SIR `20221211000` · 12/19/2022 · SAINT AUGUSTINE, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Printers and plotters-computer
- **Secondary source:** Doors, except garage and vehicle
## Employer
- **Name:** Owen Electric Company, INC
- **Location:** 1775 Lakeside Avenue, SAINT AUGUSTINE, FLORIDA, 32084
- **NAICS:** 238210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees were moving a 397-pound plotter printer over a doorstop/threshold when the injured employee's hand became wedged between the bottom of the plotter and the doorstop. As the employee pulled his hand back, he sustained a partial amputation of the left middle finger.

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