# Amputations at Packaging Service Co., Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018054245` · 5/2/2018 · PEARLAND, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Bottling, canning, filling machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Packaging Service Co., Inc.
- **Location:** 1904 Mykawa Rd., PEARLAND, TEXAS, 77581
- **NAICS:** 333999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was manually helping a production line lead at a capper machine apply caps to bottles of windshield washer fluid when he noticed that a cap had fallen into the machine's chain and sprocket. He was attempting to remove the cap when the chain and sprocket amputated four of his right fingers. The machine was guarded at the time.

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