# Amputations at Valourec Star, LP
> OSHA SIR `2017010938` · 1/25/2017 · YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Sawing machinery-stationary, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Valourec Star, LP
- **Location:** 2669 Martin Luther King Jr Dr., YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO, 44510
- **NAICS:** 331111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was  adjusting the tension of a saw belt. The saw was locked out. The employee manually rotated the pulley and caught his right thumb in the belt amputating the tip.

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