# Amputations at Michelin North America, Inc
> OSHA SIR `2022065531` · 6/24/2022 · MIDLAND CITY, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), except finger(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Michelin North America, Inc
- **Location:** 3792 Mance Newton Road, MIDLAND CITY, ALABAMA, 36350
- **NAICS:** 326211
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was winding envelopes into a take-up bobbin. The machine caught the employee's right hand and forearm, tearing muscles and tendons and breaking bones from the hand up to the forearm. He was hospitalized, and his hand was medically amputated up to the forearm.

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