# Amputations at Highway Safety Devices, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2015085464` · 8/5/2015 · FORT MYERS, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
- **Source:** Saws-powered, except chainsaws
## Employer
- **Name:** Highway Safety Devices, Inc.
- **Location:** 16125 Old US Hwy.  41, FORT MYERS, FLORIDA, 33912
- **NAICS:** 237310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cutting a wood plank with a powered circular saw when the saw kicked back and amputated the right-hand middle fingertip.

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