# Amputations at Diamondback Manufacturing, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2015042441` · 4/29/2015 · COCOA, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Shearing machines
## Employer
- **Name:** Diamondback Manufacturing, LLC
- **Location:** 1060 Cox Road, COCOA, FLORIDA, 32926
- **NAICS:** 336612
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee's right middle fingertip was amputated on a Shear machine.  The cylinder, which comes down with the guard and holds the material in place, came down onto the employee's finger when he engaged the foot pedal.

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