# Amputations at Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America
> OSHA SIR `2018043836` · 4/21/2018 · MASON, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Nonclassifiable
## Employer
- **Name:** Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America
- **Location:** 4773 Bethany Rd, MASON, OHIO, 45040
- **NAICS:** 336322
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was repairing a pneumatic chuck's plastic air line when his left index finger became trapped between the air chuck he was working on and a work pusher that was active on the opposite side of the equipment, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

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