# Amputations at Milwaukee Tool Greenwood, MS Plant
> OSHA SIR `2017088134` · 8/23/2017 · GREENWOOD, MISSISSIPPI
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
- **Source:** Scissors, snips, shears-nonpowered
## Employer
- **Name:** Milwaukee Tool Greenwood, MS Plant
- **Location:** 1003 Sycamore Avenue, GREENWOOD, MISSISSIPPI, 38930
- **NAICS:** 333515
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was trimming a plastic cooling fan for a spindle motor with a pair of scissors when the scissors amputated one of the employee's fingertips.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · AI Analytics · CC0 1.0*