# Amputations at CONTINENTAL DISC CORPORATION
> OSHA SIR `20161211683` · 12/15/2016 · LIBERTY, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Punch presses
## Employer
- **Name:** CONTINENTAL DISC CORPORATION
- **Location:** 3160 W Heartland Dr, LIBERTY, MISSOURI, 64068
- **NAICS:** 311119
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a punch press when the employee's right hand got through the safety light curtain and activated the press. The press then amputated the employee's right index fingernail and half of the distal phalanx bone.

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