# Amputations at Exide Technologies
> OSHA SIR `2015129090` · 12/2/2015 · SALINA, KANSAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Belts, gloves, neckties, scarves
## Employer
- **Name:** Exide Technologies
- **Location:** 413 E. Berg Road, SALINA, KANSAS, 67401
- **NAICS:** 335912
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was evaluating a jam around the back of the cutter machine. His glove came into contact with a guarded belt and pulley, which caught his glove and pulled his right hand in. A section of his right index finger was amputated.

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