# Amputations at Shaw Industries Group, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2020032545` · 3/18/2020 · CHATSWORTH, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Textile, apparel, leather production machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Shaw Industries Group, Inc.
- **Location:** 616 Duvall Rd, CHATSWORTH, GEORGIA, 30705
- **NAICS:** 313111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was repairing a broken yard end. While he was untying yarn ends to remove a yarn wrap from a 4-inch feed roller, the roller cycled, pinching the tip of his right thumb between a 2-inch tension roller and the 4-inch feed roller. He suffered an amputation to the thumb.

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