# Amputations at Engineer Floors
> OSHA SIR `2018099534` · 9/14/2018 · DALTON, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Textile, apparel, leather production machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Engineer Floors
- **Location:** 3201 N. Bypass, DALTON, GEORGIA, 30721
- **NAICS:** 314110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was attempting to cut off some strings from a set of rollers when the belt being rotated by the rollers caught his scissors and amputated his right middle and ring fingertips. The machine was running at the time of the incident.

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