# Amputations at Midwest Manufacturing
> OSHA SIR `2015052716` · 5/8/2015 · PIONEER, OHIO
## 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:** Agitators, mixers-earth, mineral
## Employer
- **Name:** Midwest Manufacturing
- **Location:** 14325 Tony Hwy., PIONEER, OHIO, 43554
- **NAICS:** 327390
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning a concrete mixer when the mixer's blade pinched the employee's finger. The employee sustained a partial finger amputation and compound finger fracture on the right-hand, third finger. The mixer was not locked out at the time.

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