# Amputations at Poly-America
> OSHA SIR `2019054957` · 5/16/2019 · GRAND PRAIRIE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Special process machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Poly-America
- **Location:** 2000 W. Marshall Dr., GRAND PRAIRIE, TEXAS, 75051
- **NAICS:** 326111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee suffered the amputation of the right middle fingertip while installing a chain over a drive gear sprocket on the ribbon blender.

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