# Amputations at Nelson Stud Welding, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018077339` · 7/20/2018 · ELYRIA, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Nelson Stud Welding, Inc.
- **Location:** 7900 West Ridge Rd., ELYRIA, OHIO, 44035
- **NAICS:** 339993
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On July 19, 2018, an employee was changing a sprocket wheel on a cold-forming header machine when the sprocket wheel turned and pinched his right middle finger, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

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