# Amputations at Champlin Tire Recycling, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2019076963` · 7/10/2019 · CONCORDIA, KANSAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
- **Source:** Crowbars
## Employer
- **Name:** Champlin Tire Recycling, Inc.
- **Location:** 2122 Rust Road, CONCORDIA, KANSAS, 66901
- **NAICS:** 562920
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee operating a tire shredder was using a pry bar to free a jammed tire from the tire shredder's conveyor guard. The employee's hands became caught between the pry bar and the guard. The employee sustained four fractured metacarpal bones in the left hand and the right thumb was amputated and later reattached.

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