# Amputations at Engineered Floors, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2016021515` · 2/18/2016 · DALTON, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Special process machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Engineered Floors, LLC
- **Location:** 1025 Enterprise Dr., DALTON, GEORGIA, 30721
- **NAICS:** 314110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was replacing the backing core of a tufting machine with a new primary backing when her right finger was caught between the backing jack and the backing core of the machine. Her right-hand middle fingertip was amputated.

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