# Amputations at Trojan Battery Company, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2018076991` · 7/12/2018 · SANDERSVILLE, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Casting machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Trojan Battery Company, LLC
- **Location:** 3012 George Lyons Parkway, SANDERSVILLE, GEORGIA, 31082
- **NAICS:** 335912
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was attempting to repair a slide on a grid casting machine when the die closed and caught his gloved hand. His left thumb was pinched in the mold, resulting in a soft tissue amputation to the left thumb tip (no bone loss).

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