# Amputations at D.C. Rauscher Company
> OSHA SIR `2015010448` · 1/14/2015 · ULSTER, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** D.C. Rauscher Company
- **Location:** 89 Main Street, ULSTER, PENNSYLVANIA, 18850
- **NAICS:** 213112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was unjamming a stuck granulated salt spreader used on the back of a truck to salt roads.  The employee reached into the impeller and chain components while the machine was running and something grabbed his right hand and amputated his right index finger past the nail bed, but before the first joint.

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