# Amputations at ARC Abatement, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018043887` · 4/23/2018 · SAVANNAH, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Entangled in other object or equipment
- **Source:** Rope, twine, string
## Employer
- **Name:** ARC Abatement, Inc.
- **Location:** International Paper, SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, 31401
- **NAICS:** 562910
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a rope and pulley system to lower asbestos bags from the seventh floor of a boiler when the rope (which was wet) slipped in his hands and looped around his right thumb, severely lacerating it and resulting in a surgical amputation at the first knuckle.

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