# Amputations at TRIDENT SEAFOODS
> OSHA SIR `2017031976` · 3/2/2017 · CARROLLTON, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Food slicers
## Employer
- **Name:** TRIDENT SEAFOODS
- **Location:** 100 Jerry Dowd drive, CARROLLTON, GEORGIA, 30117
- **NAICS:** 311712
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was closing a guard over a machine when the guard slipped out of his hand and pinched his hand between the guard and the slicer resulting in amputation of the right ring fingertip.

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