# Amputations at Shaw Industries Group Plant EG
> OSHA SIR `2015108045` · 10/27/2015 · RINGGOLD, 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:** Machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Shaw Industries Group Plant EG
- **Location:** 418 Cotter Street, RINGGOLD, GEORGIA, 30736
- **NAICS:** 314999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employees were installing two dust collectors. The employees were working on dust collector 1. An employee checked on the other dust collector that was not locked out to look at the dust that was coming out and got his hand caught in a rotary valve resulting in the amputation of the left index, middle and ring fingers.

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