# Amputations at Summit Corporation of America
> OSHA SIR `2019010853` · 1/24/2019 · THOMASTON, CONNECTICUT
## 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.
- **Secondary source:** Belts, gloves, neckties, scarves
## Employer
- **Name:** Summit Corporation of America
- **Location:** 1430 Waterbury Road, THOMASTON, CONNECTICUT, 06787
- **NAICS:** 332813
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

At about 3:45 a.m. on January 24, 2019, an employee was emptying parts from an electroplating barrel. He rotated the barrel to get the last of the parts, and the gears caught his glove. His left hand was pulled into the gears, resulting in the amputation of the last joint of the left middle finger. He was hospitalized.

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