# Amputations at The Sherwin-Williams Manufacturing Company
> OSHA SIR `2022098030` · 9/10/2022 · ORLANDO, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Stacking machinery
- **Secondary source:** Belts, gloves, neckties, scarves
## Employer
- **Name:** The Sherwin-Williams Manufacturing Company
- **Location:** 2150 W Sandlake Road, ORLANDO, FLORIDA, 32809
- **NAICS:** 325510
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working with a depalletizer when he noticed it was jumping. He got in a cherry picker, and was testing the tension of the chain, when the chain caught his glove and pulled in his left hand. He suffered a partial amputation to the left index finger.

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