# Amputations at Cardone Industries, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017032059` · 3/8/2017 · PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Nonclassifiable
- **Secondary source:** Handtools-powered, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Cardone Industries, Inc.
- **Location:** 5670 Rising Sun Avenue, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, 19120
- **NAICS:** 336310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

At the differential axle line, an employee sustained the amputation of his right ring fingertip while he was training another employee. A push air gun that the injured employee was holding caused an atlas square fixture to spin which caused the amputation.

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