# Amputations at Eddington Thread Manufacturing Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2020021595` · 2/18/2020 · BENSALEM, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
- **Source:** Textile, apparel, leather production machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Eddington Thread Manufacturing Company, Inc.
- **Location:** 3222 Knights Road, BENSALEM, PENNSYLVANIA, 19020
- **NAICS:** 313110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was trying to cut a tangled thread from a twisting machine. The machine caused the amputation of the employee's left ring fingertip.

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