# Amputations at GOODYEAR TIRE AND RUBBER COMPANY
> OSHA SIR `2020098506` · 9/7/2020 · TOPEKA, KANSAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Special process machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** GOODYEAR TIRE AND RUBBER COMPANY
- **Location:** 2000 NW HIGHWAY 24, TOPEKA, KANSAS, 66601
- **NAICS:** 326211
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working on the band side of a tire machine. The employee removed the empty A-frame and was pushing in the next A-frame when the top roll came back and pinched their hand between the adjustment nut of the top roll and the frame of the equipment. Half of the employee's left middle finger was amputated.

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