# Amputations at Graham Packaging PET Technologies, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018099310` · 9/9/2018 · MASON, OHIO
## 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:** Graham Packaging PET Technologies, Inc.
- **Location:** 1225 Castle Drive, MASON, OHIO, 45040
- **NAICS:** 326160
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning up waste plastic under a manufacturing line. A sprocket pinch point caught the employee's left ring finger, causing an amputation of the fingertip. The machine was guarded 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*