# Amputations at Roger Wood Foods, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017109731` · 10/10/2017 · SAVANNAH, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Sealing, stapling machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Roger Wood Foods, Inc.
- **Location:** 7 Alfred Street, SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, 31408
- **NAICS:** 311612
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was attempting to determine if a packing machine's heat plate was warm when the employee's right hand was crushed between seal plates, amputating the ring fingertip. The machine was not locked out at the time of the incident.

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