# Amputations at Packaging Corporation of America
> OSHA SIR `2016054423` · 5/19/2016 · CHESWICK, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Paper production machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Packaging Corporation of America
- **Location:** 499 Nixon Road, CHESWICK, PENNSYLVANIA, 15024
- **NAICS:** 322211
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was helping an operator clean glue off a machine roller. As he was wiping down the roller with a damp cloth, his hand was pulled into a pinch point, amputating his right middle fingertip.  The machine was unguarded and running at the time of the incident.

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