# Amputations at Auto Parts Manufacturing Mississippi
> OSHA SIR `2018077535` · 7/25/2018 · GUNTOWN, MISSISSIPPI
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Auto Parts Manufacturing Mississippi
- **Location:** 100 Tab Way, GUNTOWN, MISSISSIPPI, 38849
- **NAICS:** 336370
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was helping to adjust the alignment of a pneumatic cutter. The employee's right index finger was pinched between the cutter's cylinder and a spacer block attachment amputating  two joints of the finger.

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