# Amputations at The AZEK Company, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2020065741` · 6/19/2020 · WILMINGTON, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Toes(s), toenail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** The AZEK Company, LLC
- **Location:** 2835 Old State Street, Route 73, WILMINGTON, OHIO, 45177
- **NAICS:** 333243
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was clearing a blockage on the exhaust system at start-up while standing on the cooling bath rotor. The fins on the cooling bath roller cut through the employee's steel-toed safety shoe and amputated the right pinky toe. The machine was not guarded at the time.

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