# Amputations involving bone loss at Quality Edge Inc
> OSHA SIR `2024021879` · 2/29/2024 · GARDEN CITY, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Thumb(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
- **Source:** Stamping machinery, presses  except printing
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Quality Edge Inc
- **Location:** 5520 Export Blvd, GARDEN CITY, GEORGIA, 31408
- **NAICS:** 332322
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was loading a piece of metal onto a brake press when their left thumb was caught in the machine, resulting in an open distal phalanx fracture, degloving, and partial amputation.

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