# Amputations at Leggett & Platt Components Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2015086283` · 8/31/2015 · TUPELO, MISSISSIPPI
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Milling machines
- **Secondary source:** Belts, gloves, neckties, scarves
## Employer
- **Name:** Leggett & Platt Components Company, Inc.
- **Location:** 2071 S. Green St., TUPELO, MISSISSIPPI, 38801
- **NAICS:** 332510
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was wearing work gloves while operating a vertical milling machine to fabricate a tube. The employee attempted to adjust the tube in the machine with his left hand when his work glove got caught on a set screw. His left little fingertip was amputated; there was no bone loss.

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