# Amputations at Syntec Industries, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2018044103` · 4/28/2018 · ROME, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingernail(s), nailbed(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Machinery, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Screwdrivers-nonpowered
## Employer
- **Name:** Syntec Industries, LLC
- **Location:** 19 Westside Industrial, LLC, ROME, GEORGIA, 30165
- **NAICS:** 313310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was checking a possible problem with a chain and sprocket while holding a screwdriver with his left hand. He attempted to jog the machine over and the chain caught the screwdriver. The nail and underlying part of one of his fingers was then pinched off.

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