# Amputations at Excel Industries, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2015085982` · 8/21/2015 · HESSTON, KANSAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Brake presses
## Employer
- **Name:** Excel Industries, Inc.
- **Location:** 200 S Ridge Rd, HESSTON, KANSAS, 67062
- **NAICS:** 333112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was forming parts on a hydraulic press brake. The material being formed rotated and crushed the employee's thumb between the material and the press brake frame. The employee's right thumb tip was amputated.

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