# Amputations at Brunner International Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017109456` · 10/2/2017 · MEDINA, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Forging machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Brunner International Inc.
- **Location:** 3959 Bates Rd., MEDINA, NEW YORK, 14103
- **NAICS:** 336340
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was placing a part in an upsetter machine when his right thumb was pinched between the backstop and the end of the backstop bolt, amputating his thumb tip.

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