# Amputations at IVC
> OSHA SIR `20161211501` · 12/9/2016 · DALTON, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Extruding machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** IVC
- **Location:** 101 IVC Drive, DALTON, GEORGIA, 30721
- **NAICS:** 326192
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was clearing compound material (resin) from the hopper above a jammed extruder machine when his fingers became pinched between the hopper and the extruder. His left index and middle fingers were amputated.

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