# Amputations involving bone loss at MOHAWK INDUSTRIES, INC.
> OSHA SIR `2024109599` · 10/15/2024 · DALTON, 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:** Picking, carding, combing machinery
- **Secondary source:** Drums, pulleys, sheaves
## Employer
- **Name:** MOHAWK INDUSTRIES, INC.
- **Location:** 1811 South Hamilton St., DALTON, GEORGIA, 30720
- **NAICS:** 321918
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On October 15, 2024, a utility employee was removing fiber from a drum on a 2-meter fiber line. The drum caught the employee's left thumb, resulting in a partial medical amputation at the first knuckle.

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