# Amputations at Olin Winchester LLC
> OSHA SIR `2021119911` · 11/15/2021 · INDEPENDENCE, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Conveyors-belt
- **Secondary source:** Barrels, drums-except pressurized
## Employer
- **Name:** Olin Winchester LLC
- **Location:** 25201 MO-78, INDEPENDENCE, MISSOURI, 64056
- **NAICS:** 332992
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was changing a fiber drum believed to be empty when the drum fell, causing the employee's right ring fingertip to be caught in a pinch point in the conveyor belt and amputated.

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