# Amputations at Publix Supermarkets
> OSHA SIR `2022010432` · 1/15/2022 · PEACHTREE CITY, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
- **Source:** Banding, baling, strapping machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Publix Supermarkets
- **Location:** 130 Peachtree East Court, Suite 4, PEACHTREE CITY, GEORGIA, 30269
- **NAICS:** 445110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working on a cardboard baler. The baler caught the employee's finger and amputated the fingertip.

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