# Amputations at Wauseon Machine & Manufacturing Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017054024` · 5/3/2017 · WAUSEON, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Parts and materials, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Cart, dolly, hand truck-nonpowered
## Employer
- **Name:** Wauseon Machine & Manufacturing Inc.
- **Location:** 995 Enterprise Ave., WAUSEON, OHIO, 43567
- **NAICS:** 333513
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On May 3, 2017, at approximately 5:00 PM, an employee was moving steel on a "V" cart when the load shifted and partially amputated his right thumb.

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