# Amputations at National Packaging Services
> OSHA SIR `2018012055` · 1/23/2018 · CUDAHY, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Cart, dolly, hand truck-nonpowered
- **Secondary source:** Paper production machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** National Packaging Services
- **Location:** 3326 East Layton Ave., CUDAHY, WISCONSIN, 53110
- **NAICS:** 322121
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was loading a roll of paper into a machine and the employee's finger was crushed between the mast of a mobile hand truck and a plastic chuck on the machine resulting in a fingertip amputation.

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