# Amputations at GREAT SOUTHERN WOOD-JESUP, INC.
> OSHA SIR `2015107630` · 10/13/2015 · JESUP, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** GREAT SOUTHERN WOOD-JESUP, INC.
- **Location:** 1 Great Southern Way, JESUP, GEORGIA, 31545
- **NAICS:** 321114
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was adjusting a wood molder machine. The employee opened the hood and climbed onto the molding machine partially supporting his body on his right knee and arm. His hand slipped and contacted the machine's "knife" amputating the right hand's middle finger distal phalange.

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