# Amputations at EMCO Chemical Distributors, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2022010859` · 1/28/2022 · PLEASANT PRAIRIE, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Valves, nozzles
- **Secondary source:** Train, locomotive, rail car, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** EMCO Chemical Distributors, Inc.
- **Location:** 8601 95th Street, PLEASANT PRAIRIE, WISCONSIN, 53158
- **NAICS:** 325998
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a valve stem to slow the flow of chemicals from a railcar tanker to a truck tanker when his finger got caught between the valve stem and the railcar tank, resulting in a partial amputation.

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