# Amputations at Elkhart Products Corporation
> OSHA SIR `20201211459` · 12/7/2020 · FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Presses, except printing, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Elkhart Products Corporation
- **Location:** 3265 S School Ave, FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS, 72701
- **NAICS:** 332913
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was doing maintenance work on a press machine. The machine was homed so that the employee could clear a piece of copper from the machine's die; the die closed and amputated the employee's left ring finger, as well as damaging his middle and index fingers and his thumb.

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