# Amputations at Alpha Packaging Holdings Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018032444` · 3/12/2018 · CLEVELAND, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Barrels, drums-except pressurized
- **Secondary source:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Alpha Packaging Holdings Inc.
- **Location:** 14801 Emery Avenue, CLEVELAND, OHIO, 44135
- **NAICS:** 326199
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was mixing acrylic purge with a mixer when the mixer drum tipped. He attempted to catch the drum and stand it back up. While he was standing it back up, his left thumb was crushed between the mixer drum and the stand, resulting in a partial amputation.

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