# Amputations at John Deere Commercial Products, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018065696` · 6/11/2018 · GROVETOWN, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Material and personnel handling machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** John Deere Commercial Products, Inc.
- **Location:** 700 Horizon South Parkway, GROVETOWN, GEORGIA, 30813
- **NAICS:** 423820
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was pushing an assembled engine on an engine cart down a conveyor roller rack. As the employee attempted to slow down the momentum of the engine cart, his left index finger was pinched and amputated between the engine cart and a roller on the conveyor.

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