# Amputations at Meadville Forging Company, L.P.
> OSHA SIR `2023087817` · 8/24/2023 · MEADVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Conveyors-powered, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Meadville Forging Company, L.P.
- **Location:** 15309 Baldwin Street Ext., MEADVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA, 16335
- **NAICS:** 336390
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was snipping the last banding on a bundle of steel bars that were being brought in by a feeder table conveyor. The steel bars fell onto the employee's little finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

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