# Amputations at Pretium Packaging Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2015063438` · 6/5/2015 · HAZLETON, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Pretium Packaging Inc.
- **Location:** 512 Forest Road, HAZLETON, PENNSYLVANIA, 18202
- **NAICS:** 326160
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working on a molding machine that was alarming. The machine was not locked out at the time. The employee's hands were in the machine when the molds closed on his finger. Half of the first joint of his right ring finger (including the nail) was amputated at the hospital.

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