# Amputations at Schneider Electric
> OSHA SIR `2022010243` · 1/10/2022 · LINCOLN, NEBRASKA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment
- **Source:** Washers, dryers, and cleaning machinery and appliances, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Schneider Electric
- **Location:** 1717 Center Park Road, LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, 68512
- **NAICS:** 335313
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working on a cleaning machine in a molding department. The cleaning machine became blocked with flash material. The employee stopped it and was reaching in to clear the obstruction when the blast wheel contacted the employee's hand. The employee underwent a partial medical amputation to the index finger.

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