# Amputations at Poly-America, LP
> OSHA SIR `2019010537` · 1/16/2019 · GRAND PRAIRIE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Product labeling machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Poly-America, LP
- **Location:** 2000 W. Marshall Dr., GRAND PRAIRIE, TEXAS, 75051
- **NAICS:** 325211
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a tabletop date code stamper to record information on cardboard packaging when his finger was caught between the stamper head and base of the stamper, resulting in a finger amputation. The plexiglass face had been removed from the stamp 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*