# Amputations at Dixie Converting Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2020043409` · 4/14/2020 · CARROLLTON, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
- **Source:** Banding, baling, strapping machinery
- **Secondary source:** Handtools-nonpowered, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Dixie Converting Corporation
- **Location:** 889 Blandenburg Road, CARROLLTON, GEORGIA, 30116
- **NAICS:** 322299
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was clearing an opening to run bailer wire around a cardboard bail when the up-right bailer machine cycled. The one-foot long iron bar tool he was holding shifted and caught his left pinky finger against the bailer machine resulting in an amputation.

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