# Amputations at Adairsville Pallet Company, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2015030587` · 3/10/2015 · ADAIRSVILLE, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Adairsville Pallet Company, LLC
- **Location:** 97 Old Dixie Highway, ADAIRSVILLE, GEORGIA, 30103
- **NAICS:** 321920
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working on a pallet dismantler machine when he reached his right hand into the machine to remove a piece of wood that was causing a jam. The tip of the employee's right thumb was amputated.

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