# Amputations at Georgia-Pacific Gypsum, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2019021717` · 2/15/2019 · SWEETWATER, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Georgia-Pacific Gypsum, LLC
- **Location:** 310 FM 1856, SWEETWATER, TEXAS, 79556
- **NAICS:** 327420
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning out a machine when an edge pusher activated, catching the employee's right index finger and amputating the tip. A different part of the machine was locked out 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*