# Amputations at C. Hager & Sons Hinge Manufacturing Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2022097848` · 9/2/2022 · MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
- **Source:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** C. Hager & Sons Hinge Manufacturing Company, Inc.
- **Location:** 150 Folmar Parkway, MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA, 36105
- **NAICS:** 332510
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was blowing bearings from underneath a ball bearing assembly machine using an air hose. The air hose nozzle was pulled under the machine table, which rose and pinched the employee's right hand against a structural support. The employee suffered a partial amputation to the right thumb.

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