# Amputations at Mueller Co. LLC
> OSHA SIR `2023065640` · 6/26/2023 · DECATUR, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Drills-stationary
## Employer
- **Name:** Mueller Co. LLC
- **Location:** 500 W Eldorado, DECATUR, ILLINOIS, 62525
- **NAICS:** 332911
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a vacuum to clean chips around the table of a drill press when their gloved left hand was caught in the drill bit, resulting in amputations to the index, middle, and ring fingertips.

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