# Amputations at Orafol Americas Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2022098444` · 9/23/2022 · BLACK CREEK, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Special process machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Orafol Americas Inc.
- **Location:** 1100 Oracal Parkway, BLACK CREEK, GEORGIA, 31308
- **NAICS:** 326113
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working with an automatic sheeting machine. The material was not feeding properly into the machine. The employee was trying to grab the material and pull it through when a blade in the machine amputated the tip of her left thumb above the knuckle, also cutting her left index finger.

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