# Amputations at JET Polymer Recycling, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2020109488` · 10/6/2020 · FORT PAYNE, ALABAMA
## 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 maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Grinders, abraders
## Employer
- **Name:** JET Polymer Recycling, Inc.
- **Location:** 4811 Gault Ave North, FORT PAYNE, ALABAMA, 35967
- **NAICS:** 562920
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was unjamming a grinder's airlock. The grinder fingers in the airlock severely lacerated the employee's left hand; the middle finger was medically amputated.

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