# Amputations at Alpha Packaging Northeast
> OSHA SIR `2017021773` · 2/24/2017 · BETHLEHEM, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Alpha Packaging Northeast
- **Location:** 1995 Highland Ave., BETHLEHEM, PENNSYLVANIA, 18020
- **NAICS:** 326160
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating the plastic bottle forming machine and opened a guard to grease a sticking bushing. The machine was running at the time and the tip of his right index finger was amputated in a pinch point.

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