# Amputations at Ritz Instrument Transformers, Inc
> OSHA SIR `2021086435` · 8/2/2021 · LAVONIA, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Winders, unwinders
## Employer
- **Name:** Ritz Instrument Transformers, Inc
- **Location:** 25 Hamburg Ave., LAVONIA, GEORGIA, 30553
- **NAICS:** 335311
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was removing a coil from a winding machine. The employee's little finger was pinched between the cylinder and the machine. The very tip of the finger was fractured. Part of the fingernail was damaged and tissue beside the fingernail was removed.

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