# Amputations at Parker
> OSHA SIR `2023010361` · 1/12/2023 · KEARNEY, NEBRASKA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Belts, gloves, neckties, scarves
## Employer
- **Name:** Parker
- **Location:** 4400 E HWY 30, KEARNEY, NEBRASKA, 68847
- **NAICS:** 336399
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was setting up a spiral machine. The employee was feeding steel coils into the machine and using her hand to guide and stabilize the steel strip. The machine jogged and the feed louvers caught her glove, resulting in an amputation of the fingertip.

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