# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Rockford Ball Screw Company
> OSHA SIR `2025054503` · 5/13/2025 · ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS
## 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  n.e.c.
- **Source:** Stationary saws  band
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Rockford Ball Screw Company
- **Location:** 940 Southrock Dr., ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS, 61102
- **NAICS:** 332710
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was pulling flanges after they were cut and pushed forward by an automated horizontal bandsaw. The employee slipped and his left index fingertip was caught by the horizontal bandsaw as it came down, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

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