# Amputations at Underwriters Laboratories
> OSHA SIR `2018010248` · 1/9/2018 · MELVILLE, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Metalworking lathes
## Employer
- **Name:** Underwriters Laboratories
- **Location:** 1285 Walt Whitman Rd., MELVILLE, NEW YORK, 11747
- **NAICS:** 541711
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a lathe to test a piece of steel when the employee's hand became caught in the moving lathe, amputating a fingertip.

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