# Amputations at Twin Rivers Paper Company LLC
> OSHA SIR `20181213259` · 12/29/2018 · MADAWASKA, MAINE
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Special process machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Twin Rivers Paper Company LLC
- **Location:** 82 Bridge Avenue, MADAWASKA, MAINE, 04756
- **NAICS:** 424110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was helping others tuck a new sheet onto a re-reeling machine spool. His right hand got caught in the spool, and the machine pinched his middle, ring, and little fingers. He was hospitalized and his little finger was surgically removed just above the nail.

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