# Amputations at HUSQVARNA OUTDOOR PRODUCTS, INC.
> OSHA SIR `2016032142` · 3/10/2016 · SWAINSBORO, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Presses, except printing, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** HUSQVARNA OUTDOOR PRODUCTS, INC.
- **Location:** 561 ELECTRIC DRIVE, SWAINSBORO, GEORGIA, 30401
- **NAICS:** 333111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

The employee was attempting to push a lawn mower housing into the press area, while pushing a newly pressed lawn mower housing out onto a conveyor. A lift rack that is on a timer rises up to catch the lawn mower housing that has just been pressed.  The employee's left thumb was caught in the rack as it retracted resulting in a crushing injury/amputation to the thumb tip.

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