# Amputations at Schulz Xtruded Products, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2020065730` · 6/19/2020 · HERNANDO, MISSISSIPPI
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Schulz Xtruded Products, LLC
- **Location:** 2785 McCracken Rd, HERNANDO, MISSISSIPPI, 38632
- **NAICS:** 332312
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was loading a mandrel rod onto a machine when the pusher connector rod slipped off the pusher. The operator of the control panel stopped the pushing device and put it in reverse. The employee's finger was then caught and amputated in the machine.

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