# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at The Electric Materials Company
> OSHA SIR `2025077461` · 7/30/2025 · NORTH EAST, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
- **Source:** Other metal, wood, and special material machinery  n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** The Electric Materials Company
- **Location:** 50 South Washington Street, NORTH EAST, PENNSYLVANIA, 16428
- **NAICS:** 331420
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a draw bench and was adjusting some material that bent during processing. He went to straighten the bent material and the jaws that pull the material came back and struck his left little fingertip. The employee's fingertip was amputated.

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