# Amputations at Edwin L. Heim Company
> OSHA SIR `2016043337` · 4/21/2016 · ORRTANNA, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Pliers, tongs
## Employer
- **Name:** Edwin L. Heim Company
- **Location:** 1505 Orrtanna Rd, ORRTANNA, PENNSYLVANIA, 17353
- **NAICS:** 238210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was threading some 3-inch conduit when he identified burrs that needed removal.  He was using his channel locks to get rid of the burrs when the channel locks grabbed and pulled his left hand into the machine. The fingertip of his left pinky finger was surgically amputated above the fingernail.

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