# Amputations at Floor Pro Packaging Inc
> OSHA SIR `2018088922` · 8/28/2018 · CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
- **Source:** Special process machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Floor Pro Packaging Inc
- **Location:** 130 Beasley Rd. SW, CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, 30120
- **NAICS:** 316998
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was filling boxes under the chute of a ribbon blender when his hand entered the chute and was pinched in the machinery, resulting in a right hand amputation. The ribbon blender was in operation at the time of the incident.

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