# Amputations at PLAZE Georgia
> OSHA SIR `2017109654` · 10/9/2017 · DALTON, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Special process machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** PLAZE Georgia
- **Location:** 310 Brookhollow Road S.E., DALTON, GEORGIA, 30721
- **NAICS:** 325998
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was trying to remove a stuck valve when the valve feeding apparatus broke and either the feeding machine mechanism or a chain broke and amputated the distal end of the employee's left ring finger.

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