# Amputations at RK MECHANICAL, INC.
> OSHA SIR `2020032562` · 3/18/2020 · DENVER, COLORADO
## 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:** Rolling mills, rolling, calendering machinery
- **Secondary source:** Belts, gloves, neckties, scarves
## Employer
- **Name:** RK MECHANICAL, INC.
- **Location:** 3800 Xanthia Street, DENVER, COLORADO, 80238
- **NAICS:** 238220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was feeding sheet metal into a rolling machine when his glove got struck on a burr on the sheet metal and his left hand was drawn into the roller. The employee sustained the amputation of his left ring finger.

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