# Amputations at Hanna Steel Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2015075140` · 7/28/2015 · NORTHPORT, ALABAMA
## 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:** Bending, rolling, shaping machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Hanna Steel Corporation
- **Location:** 1701 Boone Boulevard, NORTHPORT, ALABAMA, 35476
- **NAICS:** 331210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning the build-up off the tube mill roll with a rag. The rag pulled the employee's thumb into the nip point between the turkhead roll and the tube, amputating the left thumb.

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