# Amputations at Universal Textile Technologies, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2019010784` · 1/22/2019 · DALTON, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Textile, apparel, leather production machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Universal Textile Technologies, LLC
- **Location:** 204 W. Industrial Blvd., DALTON, GEORGIA, 30720
- **NAICS:** 313310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was inspecting carpet at a third-party contract coating facility. As the carpet was run through a shearing machine, the employee's left hand was pulled into the machine, causing lacerations and amputation of fingers.

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