# Amputations at Piedmont Athens Regional-Laundry Facility
> OSHA SIR `2018010878` · 1/26/2018 · ATHENS, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Material and personnel handling machinery, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Belts, gloves, neckties, scarves
## Employer
- **Name:** Piedmont Athens Regional-Laundry Facility
- **Location:** 1655 West Broad Street, ATHENS, GEORGIA, 30606
- **NAICS:** 622110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was greasing the bearing on a sheet stacker machine when the machine's chain pulled his gloved right hand into the moving sprocket, amputating his right index and middle fingers to the second knuckle and partially amputating his thumb. The machine was running at the time of the incident.

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