# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at SIMPSON STRONG-TIE COMPANY, INC.
> OSHA SIR `2025021563` · 2/17/2025 · COLUMBUS, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Stamping machinery, presses  except printing
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** SIMPSON STRONG-TIE COMPANY, INC.
- **Location:** 2600 INTERNATIONAL STREET, COLUMBUS, OHIO, 43228
- **NAICS:** 332312
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

The injured employee was working on the south side of a press while another employee was on the north side of the press, operating the die cart to insert a new die into the press. The injured employee noticed a couple of scrap metal parts in the die and went to grab the scrap pieces. The die caught the injured employee's right thumb tip against a hole in the press, causing a partial amputation.

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