# Amputations at Paper Systems, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018088051` · 8/7/2018 · SPRINGBORO, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Nonclassifiable
- **Secondary source:** Reels, rolls, spools, coils, cones
## Employer
- **Name:** Paper Systems, Inc.
- **Location:** 185 South Pioneer Blvd., SPRINGBORO, OHIO, 45066
- **NAICS:** 322222
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee manually pushed an unwind shaft into the mill roll and got his right ring finger pinched between the shaft bearing and the mill roll resulting in amputation just below the fingertip at the first knuckle.

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