# Amputations at Sealed Air Corp.
> OSHA SIR `2016087853` · 8/22/2016 · FORT WORTH, TEXAS
## 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 maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Sealed Air Corp.
- **Location:** 4400 Diplomacy Road, FORT WORTH, TEXAS, 76155
- **NAICS:** 322232
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was trying to release materials caught in the knife area at the end of the flexible bagging machine when the guillotine knife blade amputated the first joint of the left index finger.

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