# Amputations at Transportation Equipment Supply Company
> OSHA SIR `2018043569` · 4/13/2018 · ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Sawing machinery-stationary, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Transportation Equipment Supply Company
- **Location:** 8106 Hawthorne Drive, ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA, 16509
- **NAICS:** 332216
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was attempting to clamp a saw's ancillary vice to advance a piece of stock on the saw when he activated the main vice. The main vice then clamped down onto his left ring and pinky fingers, amputating his ring fingertip.

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