# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Boyertown Foundry Co.
> OSHA SIR `2025088496` · 8/26/2025 · NEW BERLINVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
- **Source:** Conveyors roller, wheel
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Boyertown Foundry Co.
- **Location:** 9th Street & Rothermel Drive, NEW BERLINVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA, 19545
- **NAICS:** 331524
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was assembling boilers, which involved stacking the flat sections of boilers on top of one another and pushing them down a non-powered roller line. While the employee was pushing a stack onto the next set of rollers, the stack became crooked. The employee went to pull back the stack to straighten it when their finger was pinched by a roller. The employee sustained a partial amputation to their left ring fingertip.

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