# Amputations at Greenfield Research Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2016043436` · 4/25/2016 · GREENFIELD, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Greenfield Research Inc.
- **Location:** 347 Edgewood Ave., GREENFIELD, OHIO, 45123
- **NAICS:** 336360
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was attempting to clean the glue eye on a paper-covered wire machine when his left ring finger was pulled into the machine, amputating it. The machine was unguarded at the time of the incident.

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