# Amputations at Casella Recycling LLC
> OSHA SIR `2017088181` · 8/25/2017 · CHARLESTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Special process machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Casella Recycling LLC
- **Location:** 14 Bunker HIll Industrial Park, CHARLESTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS, 02129
- **NAICS:** 562920
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was replacing the worn paddles of an airlock on a platform. A coworker on a platform 60 feet away jogged an airlock on his platform and inadvertently hit a second button that started the airlock on the employee's platform. The employee's left hand was then amputated between the airlock paddle and a wear bar.

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