# Amputations at Muller Cooper Tube Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017109520` · 10/4/2017 · FULTON, MISSISSIPPI
## 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:** Honing, polishing, lapping machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Muller Cooper Tube Company, Inc.
- **Location:** 400 Muller Road, FULTON, MISSISSIPPI, 38843
- **NAICS:** 331421
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a polishing machine to sand down a steel rod when his left hand was caught in the rotating sand paper, amputating his pinky finger at the knuckle.

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