# Avulsions, enucleations without bone loss at Solmax Geosynthetics
> OSHA SIR `2025010879` · 1/28/2025 · CORNELIA, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Avulsions, enucleations without bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
- **Source:** Spinning machinery
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Solmax Geosynthetics
- **Location:** 1288 Old Cleveland Rd Cornelia, CORNELIA, GEORGIA, 30531
- **NAICS:** 313210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was making a fiber. He used his right hand to smooth the ends of polypropylene yarn and ensure they wrapped evenly onto a beam, spinning at 7 RPM. Some yarn got wrapped around his right middle finger and lacerated the finger and removed the nail, resulting in a distal amputation.

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