# Amputations at Shaw Industries Group, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2015021229` · 2/7/2015 · DALTON, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Special process machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Shaw Industries Group, Inc.
- **Location:** 1527 WARING ROAD, DALTON, GEORGIA, 30722
- **NAICS:** 314110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working on a twister machine, removing a package of yarn.  The yarn fell into the shaft and pulled her finger into the shaft, amputating the fingertip.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*