# Amputations at JOST CHEMICAL CO.
> OSHA SIR `20191010774` · 10/15/2019 · SAINT LOUIS, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Valves, nozzles
## Employer
- **Name:** JOST CHEMICAL CO.
- **Location:** 8150 Lackland Rd., SAINT LOUIS, MISSOURI, 63114
- **NAICS:** 325199
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning material from a screen located above a rotary valve when the employee's right index fingertip was caught in the rotary valve, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*