# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Cherokee Brick and Tile Company
> OSHA SIR `2025010010` · 1/1/2025 · MACON, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Drums, pulleys, sheaves
- **Secondary source:** Rope, twine, string
## Employer
- **Name:** Cherokee Brick and Tile Company
- **Location:** 3250 Waterville Road, MACON, GEORGIA, 31206
- **NAICS:** 423320
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On January 1, 2025, an employee was operating a capstan to move kiln cars along tracks. The rope of the capstan became twisted and the employee went to manually untangle it. As the rope tightened, his left ring finger was caught, resulting in partial amputation of the fingertip.

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