# Amputations at Vibration and Shock Technologies
> OSHA SIR `2017054444` · 5/16/2017 · WOBURN, MASSACHUSETTS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Special process machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Vibration and Shock Technologies
- **Location:** 36 6th Road, WOBURN, MASSACHUSETTS, 01801
- **NAICS:** 333298
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee suffered a thumb amputation while testing a shock absorber machine when the machine dropped on his thumb.

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