# Amputations at Georgia Biomass, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2020025031` · 2/21/2020 · WAYCROSS, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Conveyors-chain
- **Secondary source:** Wrenches-power not determined
## Employer
- **Name:** Georgia Biomass, LLC
- **Location:** 3390 Industrial Boulevard, WAYCROSS, GEORGIA, 31503
- **NAICS:** 454319
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was attempting to clear a pellet clog in a conveyor using a wrench when the hand wrench contacted the moving conveyor chain, causing the wrench to move forward and resulting in the employee's right index finger being pinched between the wrench and the conveyor housing. The employee sustained an amputation of the distal right index fingertip.

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