# Amputations at GATES CORP.
> OSHA SIR `2019033135` · 3/26/2019 · IOLA, KANSAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Material and personnel handling machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** GATES CORP.
- **Location:** 1450 MONTANA RD., IOLA, KANSAS, 66749
- **NAICS:** 326220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An operator was working at the north end of a strip table with another operator at the south end of the table at a nylon unwrapper. The operator was trying to keep the 3/8" pole on the rollers to help the pole spin as the nylon was being removed from the pole. The end of the pole got caught in a roller and the operator's hand got tangled together with the pole. When the operator pulled his hand out of the entanglement, his right middle fingertip was amputated. The finger was also broken below the amputation point.

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