# Amputations at National Gypsum Company, LLC.
> OSHA SIR `2018087861` · 8/1/2018 · PEACHTREE CORNERS, 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 regular operation
- **Source:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** National Gypsum Company, LLC.
- **Location:** 4125 BUFORD HIGHWAY SUITE 100, PEACHTREE CORNERS, GEORGIA, 30092
- **NAICS:** 327420
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was dumping a 50-pound bag of solid particulate into a dump station. The employee's left hand contacted a butterfly valve in the bottom of the station. The valve was activated, and the employee's middle and ring fingers were amputated below the fingernail. The valve was not guarded with a screen.

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