# Amputations at Tenneco Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2023043689` · 4/25/2023 · WAUPUN, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Cooling and humidifying machinery and appliances, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Tenneco Inc.
- **Location:** 401 Industrial Ave, WAUPUN, WISCONSIN, 53963
- **NAICS:** 811118
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was responding to a work order relating to a machine that was not cooling when the lid of the machine lowered onto the employee's thumb. They sustained a left thumb fracture and partial amputation that required hospitalization.

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