# Amputations at Palletone of Florida, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2019065610` · 6/4/2019 · HAZLEHURST, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment
- **Source:** Band saws
## Employer
- **Name:** Palletone of Florida, Inc.
- **Location:** 566 Baxley Hwy, HAZLEHURST, GEORGIA, 31539
- **NAICS:** 321920
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was attempting to clean sawdust out of the dust pipe on the six-head bandsaw and contacted the moving saw blade causing an open fracture/laceration on the right middle and ring fingers. A part of the middle finger was surgically amputated. The machine was unguarded and not locked out/tagged out at the time of the incident.

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