# Amputations at OCI Alabama LLC
> OSHA SIR `20201110787` · 11/13/2020 · DECATUR, ALABAMA
## 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 maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Machinery, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Belts, gloves, neckties, scarves
## Employer
- **Name:** OCI Alabama LLC
- **Location:** 1455 Red Hat Rd., DECATUR, ALABAMA, 35601
- **NAICS:** 325180
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees were trying to start a reactor arm. One of them was trying to adjust a three-groove V-belt that was turning in the pulley but was not in the proper grooves. The employee's left glove was caught and pulled into the pulley grooves, and two of his fingers were amputated.

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