# Amputations at Pallet One, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017010054` · 1/4/2017 · FORSYTH, 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, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Pallet One, Inc.
- **Location:** 3794 Old Macon Road, FORSYTH, GEORGIA, 31029
- **NAICS:** 321920
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a pallet machine and was trying to clear a nail that was jammed in a nail bowl when the nailer came down and amputated the employee's left pinky fingertip. The machine was not locked/tagged out at the time.

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