# Amputations at Express Employment Professionals
> OSHA SIR `2018044067` · 4/27/2018 · CONWAY, ARKANSAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Bending, rolling, shaping machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Express Employment Professionals
- **Location:** 584 Commercee Road, CONWAY, ARKANSAS, 72032
- **NAICS:** 561311
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was helping a second employee feed corrugated fiberboard sheets into a slotter machine at approximately 16:15. They determined that a piece of tape was creating issues with the sheets as they fed them into the machine. The first employee was attempting to remove a piece of the tape when the machine cut his left little finger, resulting in an amputation.

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