# Amputations at Genpak, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2019076787` · 7/6/2019 · LONGVIEW, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Genpak, LLC
- **Location:** 1101 W. Harrison Rd., LONGVIEW, TEXAS, 75604
- **NAICS:** 424130
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was helping start up an extruder, pulling the sheet over the mandrel for string-up. The sheet bunched up on the bar of the mandrel blade, and the blade amputated the employee's right middle fingertip.

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