# Amputations at AZZ Incorporated
> OSHA SIR `2016088090` · 8/29/2016 · FULTON, MISSOURI
## 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 regular operation
- **Source:** Bending, crimping machines
## Employer
- **Name:** AZZ Incorporated
- **Location:** 7911 Old US Highway 54, FULTON, MISSOURI, 65251
- **NAICS:** 335999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On 8/29/16 at 1:35 p.m. an employee was using a folding table to bend steel. When he pressed the foot operator his hands were crushed inside the machine. After evaluation and surgery to repair the injury, the employee lost three fingers.

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