# Amputations at Power Packaging
> OSHA SIR `20191010639` · 10/10/2019 · GRAND PRAIRIE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Power Packaging
- **Location:** 803 W. Carrier Pkwy., GRAND PRAIRIE, TEXAS, 75050
- **NAICS:** 311919
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was rebuilding a chopper assembly for a packaging machine in the maintenance shop. He was hooking up compressed air to test the unit while his left hand was resting against the chopper blade when the blade cut off the fingerprint pad on his left finger.

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