# Amputations at Austin Powder Company
> OSHA SIR `2015085603` · 8/10/2015 · MC ARTHUR, 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:** Machinery, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Textiles, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Austin Powder Company
- **Location:** 430 POWDER PLANT RD., ST. RT. 677, MC ARTHUR, OHIO, 45651
- **NAICS:** 325920
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee suffered a partial finger amputation while cleaning a machine drive belt. While jogging the machine, the cloth that the employee held pulled his hand into a pulley.

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