# Amputations at R & C Welding Fab Trucking and Crane Service, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2016010221` · 1/11/2016 · GERING, NEBRASKA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Punch presses
## Employer
- **Name:** R & C Welding Fab Trucking and Crane Service, Inc.
- **Location:** 880 E. Country Club Rd., GERING, NEBRASKA, 69341
- **NAICS:** 332312
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was trying to remove a metal piece from the punch/iron-work machine when the machine cycled and amputated his left index fingertip.

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