# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Lanier Color Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024010282` · 1/11/2024 · GAINESVILLE, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Extruding machinery
- **Secondary source:** Scrapers
## Employer
- **Name:** Lanier Color Company, Inc.
- **Location:** 2224 Atlanta Highway SW, GAINESVILLE, GEORGIA, 30504
- **NAICS:** 325991
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning an extruder throat with a putty knife. The knife became caught and the employee's right index finger came into contact with the extruder screw. About 3/8 inch of the fingertip was amputated.

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