# Amputations at Avid Boats
> OSHA SIR `2023065010` · 6/7/2023 · AMORY, MISSISSIPPI
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Presses, except printing, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Avid Boats
- **Location:** 504 Waterway Drive North, AMORY, MISSISSIPPI, 38821
- **NAICS:** 441222
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a press machine to cut pieces of aluminum when the press came down and crushed his left-hand fingers, resulting in two lacerated fingers and amputation of the little finger.

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