# Amputations at Parkdale America, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2023021552` · 2/17/2023 · RABUN GAP, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
- **Source:** Textile, apparel, leather production machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Parkdale America, LLC
- **Location:** 815 John Beck Dockins Rd., RABUN GAP, GEORGIA, 30568
- **NAICS:** 314999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was holding a piece of waste sliver in their left hand while resetting the clearer when the take up shaft grabbed the waste sliver and pulled the employee's left little finger in toward the shaft. The employee sustained an amputation of the top portion of the left little finger.

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