# Amputations at 3M Company
> OSHA SIR `2017021470` · 2/14/2017 · ATLANTA, GEORGIA
## 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 regular operation
- **Source:** Conveyors-powered, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Belts, gloves, neckties, scarves
## Employer
- **Name:** 3M Company
- **Location:** 3700 Atlanta Industrial Parkway NW, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, 30331
- **NAICS:** 325510
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was packing tubes in a box from a moving plastic cleated conveyor in the Packaging Department. The employee's work glove was caught on the moving conveyor pulling his hand into the static plate on the conveyor and amputating the right index finger.

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