# Amputations at Georgia Envelope & Converting LLC
> OSHA SIR `20181111988` · 11/21/2018 · AUSTELL, 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:** Paper production machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Georgia Envelope & Converting LLC
- **Location:** 8015 Second Flag Dr, AUSTELL, GEORGIA, 30168
- **NAICS:** 322230
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a paper cutter machine that cuts and folds paper into envelopes of different sizes. Part of the process is to stick adhesive onto the envelopes. The adhesive is poured into a reservoir located directly underneath a set of gears (sprockets). The operator was trying to remove a piece of paper that had fallen onto the reservoir when their right index finger was caught in the gears and amputated.

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