# Amputations at Foley Products Company
> OSHA SIR `2023098745` · 9/21/2023 · LITTLETON, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Foley Products Company
- **Location:** 8311 Carder Court, LITTLETON, COLORADO, 80125
- **NAICS:** 327332
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was starting the filling process for an 18-inch elliptical form and then prepared headers for the next step of production. The employee loaded the headers into the elliptical header form and rotated a lever to engage the lifting lugs when his right middle fingertip was pinched by the lever, resulting in amputation.

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