# Amputations at Avient Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2023010552` · 1/18/2023 · ENGLEWOOD, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Milling machines
## Employer
- **Name:** Avient Corporation
- **Location:** 8375 Highfield Parkway, ENGLEWOOD, COLORADO, 80112
- **NAICS:** 326199
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a milling machine to fabricate parts. Swarf accumulated on the cutting surface. As the employee cleared the metal shavings, the rotating blade on the machine caught their left ring finger, resulting in a soft tissue fingertip amputation.

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