# Amputations at GROVE COLLABORATIVE, INC
> OSHA SIR `20181212811` · 12/13/2018 · SAINT PETERS, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** GROVE COLLABORATIVE, INC
- **Location:** 1000 Premier Parkway, SAINT PETERS, MISSOURI, 63376
- **NAICS:** 454110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was changing out packing paper in a machine used to crinkle paper for packing and shipping when their hand entered the machine and the left middle fingertip was lacerated. The injury will require surgical amputation. The machine was running at the time.

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