# Amputations at Soundview Paper Company
> OSHA SIR `2018032657` · 3/18/2018 · ELMWOOD PARK, NEW JERSEY
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
- **Source:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Soundview Paper Company
- **Location:** 1 Market Street, ELMWOOD PARK, NEW JERSEY, 07407
- **NAICS:** 322121
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was poking at a sprocket on a machine from a ladder when the sprocket amputated his index fingertip.

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