# Amputations at Aarrowcast Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018088329` · 8/14/2018 · SHAWANO, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **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:** Elevators
## Employer
- **Name:** Aarrowcast Inc.
- **Location:** 2900 E. Richmond Street, SHAWANO, WISCONSIN, 54166
- **NAICS:** 331511
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was unjamming a guide wheel in a flask elevator. When the guide wheel was unjammed, it moved and pinched the employee's finger, resulting in a right middle finger amputation below the fingernail. The flask elevator was not locked/tagged out at the time.

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