# Amputations at Axiall Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2017021789` · 2/24/2017 · HAZLEHURST, MISSISSIPPI
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **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:** Conveyors-screw, auger
## Employer
- **Name:** Axiall Corporation
- **Location:** 20043 Highway 51, HAZLEHURST, MISSISSIPPI, 39083
- **NAICS:** 325991
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee opened the cleanout on a screw conveyor that had stopped. As he was removing the super sack string that had bound it up, the screw conveyor continued turning and amputated his right ring finger.

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