# Amputations at Autosales, Incorporated
> OSHA SIR `2018010966` · 1/29/2018 · MCDONOUGH, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Machinery, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Sheets, towels, linens, bedding
## Employer
- **Name:** Autosales, Incorporated
- **Location:** 20 King Mill Road, MCDONOUGH, GEORGIA, 30253
- **NAICS:** 441310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning grease marks around the drive chain area of a gear/sprocket with a shop towel. The chain caught the towel, pulling it and the employee's hand into the drive chain/sprocket. The employee suffered a partial amputation to the right index finger and three crushed fingers.

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