# Amputations at Ferber Sheet Metal Works, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018077459` · 7/23/2018 · JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Sawing machinery-stationary, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Ferber Sheet Metal Works, Inc.
- **Location:** 4121 EVERGREEN AVENUE, JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA, 32217
- **NAICS:** 332322
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was showing an apprentice how to lock down the metal to a cut-off saw machine when the machine was engaged as he was placing his right index finger on a slot. His finger was caught between the slot and the machine's chain, resulting in the amputation of his right index fingertip without bone loss.

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