# Amputations at Specialty Industries, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2015064033` · 6/24/2015 · OGLETHORPE, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Containers-nonpressurized, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Building, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Specialty Industries, Inc.
- **Location:** 4949 Georgia Highway 90 West, OGLETHORPE, GEORGIA, 31068
- **NAICS:** 238290
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee and a coworker were rolling a cylindrical cyclone hopper down a passageway when the hopper became unbalanced and started to fall. As the employee attempted to catch and re-steady the hopper, his left pinky finger got caught between a metal flange on the hopper and a permanently fixed metal pipe of the building. The employee injured the left pinky finger; the fingertip was amputated at the hospital.

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