# Amputations at Palmer Manufacturing and Supply, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2021021294` · 2/12/2021 · SPRINGFIELD, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
- **Source:** Sanders-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** Palmer Manufacturing and Supply, Inc.
- **Location:** 18 North Bechtle Avenue, SPRINGFIELD, OHIO, 45504
- **NAICS:** 333298
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was sanding the end of a 1-inch-wide, 1/4-inch-thick, 12- to 13-inch-long rod on a pedestal grinder using a sanding disk attachment. The sanding disk caught the rod and pulled it toward the machine, causing the employee's gloved left hand to come into contact with the sanding disk. The employee's thumb tip was amputated to the cuticle.

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