# Amputations at Miller Waste Mills Inc
> OSHA SIR `20171211534` · 12/5/2017 · TWO RIVERS, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Arm(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Picking, carding, combing machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Miller Waste Mills Inc
- **Location:** 1016 School Street, TWO RIVERS, WISCONSIN, 54241
- **NAICS:** 313110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was standing on a motor while cleaning a carding machine. The employee was using a manually turned wheel to traverse the vacuum nozzle across the moving cylinder when his left arm was caught in the machine. He was hospitalized and his left arm was partially amputated.

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