# Amputations at Golden Aluminum, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017076154` · 7/5/2017 · FORT LUPTON, COLORADO
## 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:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Golden Aluminum, Inc.
- **Location:** 1405 E. 14th St., FORT LUPTON, COLORADO, 80621
- **NAICS:** 331315
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was wiping shavings from the blade of a chopper machine when the chopper amputated his pinky finger and the tip of his ring finger. The machine was active at the time of the incident.

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