# Amputations at Morton Salt, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2020109971` · 10/20/2020 · RITTMAN, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Morton Salt, Inc.
- **Location:** 151 South Industrial Ave, RITTMAN, OHIO, 44270
- **NAICS:** 311942
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was clearing a blockage on a piece of equipment when the slide gate closed on his hand and amputated the left index fingertip.

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