# Amputations at Airlite Plastics Company
> OSHA SIR `2018065925` · 6/15/2018 · NAZARETH, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Airlite Plastics Company
- **Location:** 2860 Bath Pike, NAZARETH, PENNSYLVANIA, 18064
- **NAICS:** 326199
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was trying to dislodge jammed plastic in a plastic sheet line; a shear in the machine amputated the tips of his left middle and ring fingers. The machine was guarded with a metal grate at the time of the incident.

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