# Amputations at Rohrer Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2017065192` · 6/7/2017 · BUFORD, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Rohrer Corporation
- **Location:** 1800 Enterprise Drive, BUFORD, GEORGIA, 30518
- **NAICS:** 326199
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was manipulating the alignment bolts on a thermoformer machine when the machine's platen lowered onto his right hand, crushing it and amputating his right pinky fingertip.

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