# Amputations at Sig Sauer, Inc
> OSHA SIR `2023098148` · 9/5/2023 · ROCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Drilling machines, drilling augers
- **Secondary source:** Wrenches-power not determined
## Employer
- **Name:** Sig Sauer, Inc
- **Location:** SIG Sauer Inc. - Rochester, ROCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE, 03868
- **NAICS:** 332994
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was changing the bit on a horizontal gun drill. The wrench slipped while tightening a collet and the employee's left little finger was fractured and partially amputated.

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