# Amputations at Bouckaert Industrial Textile, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2016054819` · 5/31/2016 · WOONSOCKET, RHODE ISLAND
## 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:** Picking, carding, combing machinery
- **Secondary source:** Belts, gloves, neckties, scarves
## Employer
- **Name:** Bouckaert Industrial Textile, Inc.
- **Location:** 235 Singleton Street, WOONSOCKET, RHODE ISLAND, 02895
- **NAICS:** 313210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On 5/31/16, a worker sustained the amputation of several fingers from his left hand while attempting to clean fluff material from the side of a doffer roll on a carding line while the machine was running.

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