# Amputations at Thermoseal Industries LLC.
> OSHA SIR `2017087728` · 8/12/2017 · GLOUCESTER CITY, NEW JERSEY
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Shearing machines
## Employer
- **Name:** Thermoseal Industries LLC.
- **Location:** 600 Jersey Avenue, GLOUCESTER CITY, NEW JERSEY, 08030
- **NAICS:** 327215
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cutting a piece of metal with a shear machine when the machine amputated the employee's thumb tip. The machine was unguarded at the time.

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