# Amputations at Kingsford Manufacturing Company
> OSHA SIR `2023109620` · 10/18/2023 · PARSONS, WEST VIRGINIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
- **Source:** Packaging, bottling, wrapping machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Kingsford Manufacturing Company
- **Location:** 180 Kingsford Lane, PARSONS, WEST VIRGINIA, 26287
- **NAICS:** 325998
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was starting his shift and making adjustments to the chain tension of a heat tunnel machine. The employee was checking the tension when the rotating chain amputated his right index fingertip.

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