# Amputations at Best Fender Products, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018010220` · 1/8/2018 · MOUNT PLEASANT, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Forging machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Best Fender Products, Inc.
- **Location:** 2364 Texas Highway 49, MOUNT PLEASANT, TEXAS, 75455
- **NAICS:** 811112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee powered off a fender forging machine and engaged the pneumatic gauge die holder (cylinder). The cylinder then came up and amputated his finger.

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