# Amputations at Cutco Corp.
> OSHA SIR `2023076208` · 7/12/2023 · OLEAN, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Grinding, polishing machinery, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Crowbars
## Employer
- **Name:** Cutco Corp.
- **Location:** 1116 East State Street, OLEAN, NEW YORK, 14760
- **NAICS:** 332215
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was servicing a transfer polishing machine. He was using a prybar to align a rail system when the prybar slipped and the equipment came down on his left hand. Their middle fingertip was amputated.

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