# Amputations at Trojan Battery Company, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2021119566` · 11/5/2021 · SANDERSVILLE, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Heating and cooking machinery and appliances, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Tools, instruments, and equipment, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Trojan Battery Company, LLC
- **Location:** 3012 George Lyons Parkway West, SANDERSVILLE, GEORGIA, 31082
- **NAICS:** 335912
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a 36-inch-long tool to clear battery plates out. The tool contacted a conveyor, which pulled the employee's right hand too close to the opening to an oven. The tip of his index finger was amputated.

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