# Amputations at Newtech Installation USA Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2023032114` · 3/7/2023 · ARLINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Sawing machinery-stationary, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Newtech Installation USA Inc.
- **Location:** 51 Grove Street, ARLINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS, 02474
- **NAICS:** 236220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was scribing trim molding to be installed. The molding saw severely lacerated two of the employee's fingertips, which had to be medically amputated to the first knuckle.

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