# Amputations at Hillside Plastics, Incorporated
> OSHA SIR `2015096503` · 9/7/2015 · TURNERS FALLS, MASSACHUSETTS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Hillside Plastics, Incorporated
- **Location:** 262 Millers Falls Road, TURNERS FALLS, MASSACHUSETTS, 01376
- **NAICS:** 326160
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On 9/7/15, an employee was cleaning out top flash and trimmings that had fallen on the floor beneath an auto-trimmer. His finger entered the stroke path of the lift cylinder, and his right middle fingertip was amputated.

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