# Amputations involving bone loss at AUTOMATIC SYSTEMS, INC.
> OSHA SIR `2024043710` · 4/29/2024 · KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
- **Source:** Shearing machinery
- **Secondary source:** Clamps, couplings
## Employer
- **Name:** AUTOMATIC SYSTEMS, INC.
- **Location:** 9230 East 47th Street, KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, 64133
- **NAICS:** 333922
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was placing metal material into position on a shear when his left hand was crushed by the hold down bar, resulting in an amputation of his middle finger to the middle phalanx and a crushing injury to his ring finger.

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