# Amputations at ANTHONY WEISS
> OSHA SIR `2017057161` · 5/12/2017 · EDEN, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Seed planting machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** ANTHONY WEISS
- **Location:** 7829 E. Eden Road, EDEN, NEW YORK, 14057
- **NAICS:** 111998
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

The employee had been planting crops with a planting machine. The employee's hands were in the planting mechanism when it hydraulically lifted and caught his fingers resulting in amputation of the right index fingertip.

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