# Amputations at Charles Machine, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017010730` · 1/24/2017 · PERRY, OKLAHOMA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Milling machines
## Employer
- **Name:** Charles Machine, Inc.
- **Location:** 1959 W Fir Ave, PERRY, OKLAHOMA, 73077
- **NAICS:** 333120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

The employee was operating a mill machine to put flats on round bar stock. The employee reached behind the stock to check on a radius and was caught between the bit and the stock amputating the right index fingertip.

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