# Amputations at Robinson Paving
> OSHA SIR `2017098998` · 9/20/2017 · RUPERT, 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 maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Special process machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Robinson Paving
- **Location:** 1843 Americus Hwy, RUPERT, GEORGIA, 31081
- **NAICS:** 324121
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was helping a coworker make adjustments to an electric drive motor belt on an asphalt house bag machine when the belt amputated his fifth finger.

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