# Amputations at Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products
> OSHA SIR `2016087575` · 8/12/2016 · RINCON, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Paper production machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products
- **Location:** 437 Old Augusta Road South, RINCON, GEORGIA, 31326
- **NAICS:** 322121
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

While troubleshooting a machine, an employee leaned against an adjacent hopper machine and propped himself up with his left hand. The hopper housing moved under his weight and pinched this thumb, fracturing bone and amputating his thumb tip.

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