# Amputations at Thacker Casket Manufacturing, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2021064546` · 6/4/2021 · FLORENCE, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Special process machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Thacker Casket Manufacturing, Inc.
- **Location:** 4122 RUSHTON STREET, FLORENCE, ALABAMA, 35630
- **NAICS:** 339995
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was changing out floor paper under a chain conveyor inside a topcoat cure oven. His left middle finger was pulled into a pinch point between the conveyor's chain and a gear. The skin of the fingertip was degloved, and the fingertip was medically amputated at the first joint.

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