# Amputations at Speciality Fabricators Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2015010804` · 1/26/2015 · YORK, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Bending, rolling, shaping machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Speciality Fabricators Inc.
- **Location:** 10 Marianne Drive Suite 102, YORK, PENNSYLVANIA, 17406
- **NAICS:** 332322
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee suffered an amputation of the tip of his thumb while assisting in rolling metal into a power roller machine.  The employee reached back to get a better hold on the material when his thumb got too close to the rolls. His thumb was caught between a roll and the metal.  The second employee backed the rolls up to release the thumb.

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