# Amputations at Exide Technologies
> OSHA SIR `2020076552` · 7/13/2020 · LAMPETER, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Valves, nozzles
## Employer
- **Name:** Exide Technologies
- **Location:** 829 Paramount Avenue, LAMPETER, PENNSYLVANIA, 17537
- **NAICS:** 325211
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

While maintenance employees were evaluating an actuator on top of his work box, the injured employee supplied air to see which direction controlled the valve. When the air released, the injured employee's left index fingertip was amputated by the actuator valve.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*