# Amputations at D.S. Brown
> OSHA SIR `2017099034` · 9/20/2017 · ATHENS, TEXAS
## 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:** Milling machines
## Employer
- **Name:** D.S. Brown
- **Location:** 518 Progress Way, ATHENS, TEXAS, 75751
- **NAICS:** 332312
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working on the backside of a breakdown mill, waiting for rubber to process through the mill so that it could be cut and sent back into the mill, when his right hand was caught between two rollers, amputating two fingers.

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