# Amputations at Advance Research Chemicals, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2022064966` · 6/9/2022 · CATOOSA, OKLAHOMA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Special process machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Advance Research Chemicals, Inc.
- **Location:** 1110 W. Keystone Avenue, CATOOSA, OKLAHOMA, 74015
- **NAICS:** 325998
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was adjusting a filling machine when their right little finger became caught between the structure of the machine and a moving crossmember. The employee suffered an avulsion that resulted in a partial amputation of bone during a medical procedure.

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