# Amputations at SVC Manufacturing, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2019065903` · 6/11/2019 · ATLANTA, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Material and personnel handling machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** SVC Manufacturing, Inc.
- **Location:** SVC Manufacturing Inc, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, 30336
- **NAICS:** 722515
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was helping to clear a pallet jam in a pallet exchange machine when the pallet machine released and pinched his left middle fingertip, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

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