# Amputations at SKF USA Incorporated
> OSHA SIR `2015010494` · 1/15/2015 · HANOVER, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** SKF USA Incorporated
- **Location:** 20 Industrial Drive, HANOVER, PENNSYLVANIA, 17331
- **NAICS:** 332991
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was presetting a roller channel machine.  While presetting the chuck, a jam occurred.  The employee tried to clear the jam.  The pusher activated and pinched the tip of the employee's right index finger.  The employee went to the emergency room, which documented the injury as an amputation.

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