# Amputations at NCL Graphic Specialties, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2015129704` · 12/23/2015 · WAUKESHA, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object or equipment dropped by injured worker
- **Source:** Machine, tool, and electric parts, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** NCL Graphic Specialties, Inc.
- **Location:** N29 W22960 Marjean Lane, WAUKESHA, WISCONSIN, 53186
- **NAICS:** 323110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using the manually operated (non-powered) plate bender to bend a plate when a part of the plate bender that he was holding (~20 inches long) slipped out of his hand and fell onto his left index finger causing a fingertip amputation.

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