Abstract: At approximately 6:40 a.m. on October 8, 2005, Employee #1, amputated a finger while operating a Golf 3 cube barrel blast machine. The Employee was using the barrel blast machine to remove residual ceramic coatings on products. This particular machine had a problem of continually getting clogged with the sand and other metal debris. Employee #1 opened the abrasive access door of the Golf 3 cube barrel blast machine located on the lower front of the cabinet to check if there were any problems. The Employee found that a piece of metal wire in the Elevator Separator of Abrasive Recycling System was jammed into the machine and disrupting the blasting operation. The employee pulled on the metal wire to try to free it, but unexpectedly this wire pulled his right hand into the Elevator Separator. Employee #1 right hand contacted the moving components of the elevator separator which caused an amputation of a right little finger to first digit with bone loss and fractures to the second and third right fingers as well as a deep laceration on the extensor tendon of right index finger.