# Amputations at RX  SYSTEMS, INC
> OSHA SIR `2016032090` · 3/9/2016 · SAINT CHARLES, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Presses-printing
## Employer
- **Name:** RX  SYSTEMS, INC
- **Location:** 121 Point West Blvd, SAINT CHARLES, MISSOURI, 63301
- **NAICS:** 424210
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was loading paper into a printing press when the press did not move the paper along as designed. The employee jogged the machine and turned it off and then on, attempting to get the paper to move along. The employee's left index finger was caught in the machine, amputating the first digit of the finger.

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