# Amputations at Lincoln Electric Company
> OSHA SIR `2015129651` · 12/21/2015 · CLEVELAND, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Conveyors-powered, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Lincoln Electric Company
- **Location:** 22801 St. Clair Ave., CLEVELAND, OHIO, 44117
- **NAICS:** 333992
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working in Department 24 at the "B" line boxing station.  Welding rods were moving on the indexing cooling conveyor that carries them from the furnace.  The employee was assisting the movement of the rods along the conveyor with his left hand when his right thumb was caught in a pinch point in the conveyor resulting in a fingertip amputation.

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