# Amputations at Byerly RV
> OSHA SIR `2023053898` · 5/1/2023 · EUREKA, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Special process machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Byerly RV
- **Location:** 295 East 5th Street, EUREKA, MISSOURI, 63025
- **NAICS:** 441210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a brush to apply lubrication to a tire machine while changing a tire. When the tire began to spin their right index fingertip contacted the machine's duckhead mount, resulting in a partial amputation.

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