# Amputations at Alpha ProTech Engineered Products, Inc
> OSHA SIR `2016099077` · 9/26/2016 · VALDOSTA, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Presses-printing
- **Secondary source:** Textiles, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Alpha ProTech Engineered Products, Inc
- **Location:** 301 South Blanchard Street, VALDOSTA, GEORGIA, 31601
- **NAICS:** 314999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning a moving printer roller with a paint scraper while holding a rag in his left hand. The rag became caught inside the printer roller and anilox roller gears, pulling his left hand in and causing an amputation.

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