# Amputations at Turbine Engine Components Technologies Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2018066197` · 6/22/2018 · THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
- **Source:** Milling machines
## Employer
- **Name:** Turbine Engine Components Technologies Corporation
- **Location:** 1211 Old Albany Road, THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA, 31792
- **NAICS:** 336412
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was setting up and adjusting a milling machine. While one of the machine's gearbox doors was open, the machine activated and the gearbox pinched the employee's left thumb, causing a partial amputation.

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