# Amputations at Packers Sanitation Services, Inc. LLC
> OSHA SIR `2017076519` · 7/14/2017 · LINCOLN, NEBRASKA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Packers Sanitation Services, Inc. LLC
- **Location:** 200 S 2nd St, LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, 68508
- **NAICS:** 561720
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was changing bags on a bag tail blower on a packaging machine. While she was unhooking a bag from the blower, the blower motor lacerated her right index finger. Her finger had to be amputated at the fingernail.

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