# Amputations at KUBOTA INDUSTRIAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION
> OSHA SIR `2015074553` · 7/11/2015 · JEFFERSON, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Fans, blowers-wall, floor, ceiling, ventilation
## Employer
- **Name:** KUBOTA INDUSTRIAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION
- **Location:** 1001 MCCLURE INDUSTRIAL PKWY, JEFFERSON, GEORGIA, 30549
- **NAICS:** 333111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A maintenance employee was assisting another maintenance employee in repairing/replacing a belt on a dryer fan.  He was checking the tension of the belt while the machine was slowing down after being shut down and caught his left hand in the pulley amputating the left thumb tip approximately half way down into the nail.

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