# Amputations at Mueller Co.
> OSHA SIR `2018010746` · 1/23/2018 · DECATUR, ILLINOIS
## 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 regular operation
- **Source:** Product testing, inspecting, and diagnostic machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Mueller Co.
- **Location:** 500 W Eldorado, DECATUR, ILLINOIS, 62525
- **NAICS:** 331522
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On January 23, 2018, at 4:10 p.m., an employee was placing a brass valve into a water test tank on a fixture system when he inadvertently hit the back lever, causing the clamp that holds the valve in place to clamp on his left middle finger, amputating it.

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