# Amputations at Rocky Mountain Recycling, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2015052545` · 5/4/2015 · DENVER, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **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:** Banding, baling, strapping machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Rocky Mountain Recycling, LLC
- **Location:** 4744 4th Street, DENVER, COLORADO, 80216
- **NAICS:** 423930
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On May 4, 2015, an employee was cleaning the strapper on the bailer unit.  The employee suffered a fracture and partial amputation of the right index finger after his finger was pulled into the pinch point between the two pinch wheels of the machine.

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