# Amputations at Niagara Cutter, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2018065756` · 6/12/2018 · REYNOLDSVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Grinders, abraders
## Employer
- **Name:** Niagara Cutter, LLC
- **Location:** 150 S. 5th Street, REYNOLDSVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA, 15851
- **NAICS:** 333517
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was running a machine that dresses a form on a grinding wheel. The employee was cleaning off the grinding wheel when their right index finger was pinched between the grinding wheel and the dressing wheel amputating it at the first knuckle.

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