# Amputations at Mativ Incorporated
> OSHA SIR `2023098724` · 9/21/2023 · ATHENS, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Mativ Incorporated
- **Location:** 1755 Olympic Drive, ATHENS, GEORGIA, 30601
- **NAICS:** 325211
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was inflating a shaft inside a roll. The employee placed his right thumb on the valve to release air from the shaft. When the air pressure began to release, the roll shifted and pinched his right thumb, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

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