# Amputations at Plastipak Packaging, Inc
> OSHA SIR `20171211478` · 12/3/2017 · PINEVILLE, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Arm(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Plastipak Packaging, Inc
- **Location:** 4101 Perdue Road, PINEVILLE, LOUISIANA, 71360
- **NAICS:** 326160
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was performing maintenance on a rotary wheel machine and attempting to make an adjustment when the employee's right arm became caught in the machine. The employee's arm had to be surgically amputated.

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