# Amputations at Kason Industries, Inc
> OSHA SIR `2021032125` · 3/10/2021 · NEWNAN, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Kason Industries, Inc
- **Location:** 57 Amlajack Boulevard, NEWNAN, GEORGIA, 30265
- **NAICS:** 332999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating an assembly machine and had to adjust a part in the machine. While adjusting the part with his left hand, the machine cycled resulting in a partial amputation to the middle fingertip, without bone loss.

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