# Amputations at ELECTRIC BOAT CORPORATION
> OSHA SIR `2015118359` · 11/6/2015 · GROTON, CONNECTICUT
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Rolling mills, rolling, calendering machinery
- **Secondary source:** Belts, gloves, neckties, scarves
## Employer
- **Name:** ELECTRIC BOAT CORPORATION
- **Location:** Sub Base, 1 Crystal Lake Road, GROTON, CONNECTICUT, 06340
- **NAICS:** 336612
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

While using a metal rolling machine to straighten a piece of sheet metal, and employee's glove got caught in one of the rollers, which pulled his hand in. He lost three fingers on his left hand down to the first knuckle, requiring hospitalization and surgery.

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