# Amputations at pewag Traction Chain, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2020087328` · 8/4/2020 · PUEBLO, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** pewag Traction Chain, Inc.
- **Location:** 190 Greenhorn Dr, PUEBLO, COLORADO, 81004
- **NAICS:** 332618
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning a sidehook machine. The machine's arm came down and pressed the employee's hand into a recessed area for a mandrel. The hand was crushed and the employee underwent bone reduction surgery to the little finger.

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