# Amputations at SA Recycling LLC
> OSHA SIR `2020032816` · 3/27/2020 · NORCROSS, 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:** Material and personnel handling machinery, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Belts, gloves, neckties, scarves
## Employer
- **Name:** SA Recycling LLC
- **Location:** 1882 Mitchell Rd, NORCROSS, GEORGIA, 30071
- **NAICS:** 423930
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee had just adjusted the speed of a shaker table, and was turning to walk away, when the table's belt caught his left glove and pulled his index finger into the pulley. He suffered a fracture and an amputation to the finger.

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