# Amputations at TRICO GIN & PEANUT, INC.
> OSHA SIR `20171010426` · 10/24/2017 · UNADILLA, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Textile, apparel, leather production machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** TRICO GIN & PEANUT, INC.
- **Location:** 150 Tharpe Road, UNADILLA, GEORGIA, 31091
- **NAICS:** 115111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was shutting down a cotton gin and opened the metal cover for the lint cleaner. The belt or saw inside the lint cleaner partially amputated the employee's right index fingertip.

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