# Amputations at Elixir Door and Metals Co., Inc
> OSHA SIR `2017076595` · 7/17/2017 · FITZGERALD, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Brake presses
## Employer
- **Name:** Elixir Door and Metals Co., Inc
- **Location:** 243 Washington Avenue, FITZGERALD, GEORGIA, 31750
- **NAICS:** 332321
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a press brake to bend a piece of steel. After bending the piece of steel, he re-actuated the press brake with the foot pedal while grabbing the part out of the die. The part broke up toward the front/top of the press (ram) and a previously bent flange caught and amputated his left index and ring fingertips above the knuckle.

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