# Amputations at Kendall Patient Recovery, LLC.
> OSHA SIR `20180113313` · 1/17/2018 · AUGUSTA, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Kendall Patient Recovery, LLC.
- **Location:** 1430 Marvin Griffin Road, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, 30906
- **NAICS:** 423450
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was helping operate a lap handle machine. The machine jammed; as the employee tried to clear the jam, its cutting blade amputated the tip of her right index finger.

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