# Amputations at Global Textile Services, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2018044116` · 4/29/2018 · DALTON, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
- **Source:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Global Textile Services, LLC
- **Location:** 120 Global Drive, DALTON, GEORGIA, 30720
- **NAICS:** 313310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was attempting to remove waste/scrap yarn from a roller shaft when the turning roller amputated his left index finger. The roller shaft was unguarded at the time.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*