# Amputations at Coats & Clark, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2020088227` · 8/30/2020 · ALBANY, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment
- **Source:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Coats & Clark, Inc.
- **Location:** 901 CLARK AVENUE, ALBANY, GEORGIA, 31705
- **NAICS:** 313310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was pulling film out of the can that has a vacuum on top that pulls the waste film off of the line. The fan blades lacerated two fingers on the employee's left hand. A fingertip was surgically amputated.

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