# Amputations at ATCO Rubber Products, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2019021183` · 2/1/2019 · FORT WORTH, 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 maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Metalworking lathes
- **Secondary source:** Belts, gloves, neckties, scarves
## Employer
- **Name:** ATCO Rubber Products, Inc.
- **Location:** 7101 Atco Drive, FORT WORTH, TEXAS, 76118
- **NAICS:** 326111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was sanding a steel shaft on a lathe and performing maintenance when their glove was caught by the shaft pulling his right hand into the shaft and amputating the middle finger at the first joint below the finger nail.

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