# Amputations at Gilton Solid Waste Management, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017109463` · 10/2/2017 · JOPLIN, MISSOURI
## 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:** Special process machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Gilton Solid Waste Management, Inc.
- **Location:** 1859 W 20th, JOPLIN, MISSOURI, 64804
- **NAICS:** 562111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was clearing a dust clog at a cyclone rotary valve when the valve amputated the three middle fingers of the employee's left hand.

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