# Amputations at Poch Staffing, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018032301` · 3/7/2018 · MORTON, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Brake presses
## Employer
- **Name:** Poch Staffing, Inc.
- **Location:** 1021 W Birchwood, MORTON, ILLINOIS, 61550
- **NAICS:** 561320
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On March 7, 2018, at approximately 4:15 a.m., an employee was operating the press brake and completed the first bend. As he was performing the second bend his left thumb was pinched in the part between the two bends amputating the tip of the thumb.

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