# Amputations at 3M Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2020098321` · 9/1/2020 · DECATUR, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** 3M Company, Inc.
- **Location:** 1400 State Docks Road, DECATUR, ALABAMA, 35601
- **NAICS:** 325220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was preparing to remove a film roll from a chuck. The roll was pulled and the first employee's right index finger was caught between the roll and a cradle. He suffered an amputation to the finger.

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