# Amputations at Advanced Environmental Recycling Technologies, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018010905` · 1/27/2018 · SPRINGDALE, ARKANSAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Extruding machinery
- **Secondary source:** Belts, gloves, neckties, scarves
## Employer
- **Name:** Advanced Environmental Recycling Technologies, Inc.
- **Location:** 802 E Huntsville St, SPRINGDALE, ARKANSAS, 72764
- **NAICS:** 562920
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning a piston-type vacuum pump attached to an extruder machine when his left glove was caught in the cylinder by the internal machine parts, resulting in an amputation to his left index fingertip.

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