# Amputations at Waste Eliminator, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20161111064` · 11/28/2016 · NORCROSS, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Conveyors-belt
## Employer
- **Name:** Waste Eliminator, Inc.
- **Location:** 3025 Jones Mill Road, NORCROSS, GEORGIA, 30071
- **NAICS:** 562920
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was picking recyclable waste from a conveyor belt and placing it in the appropriate bins when the employee's left pinky finger became caught and amputated between the belt and the metal portion of the shoot.

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