# Amputations at Avanti Environmental Group Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2019010362` · 1/11/2019 · 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 during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Special process machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Avanti Environmental Group Inc.
- **Location:** 1406 Coronet Drive, DALTON, GEORGIA, 30720
- **NAICS:** 423930
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

While an employee was cleaning fiber and metal shavings from a separating machine, the machine energized and the rotating auger struck the employee's right hand causing the amputation of the right thumb.

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