# Amputations at Packaging Corporation of America
> OSHA SIR `20191010925` · 10/18/2019 · WACO, 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, unspecified
- **Source:** Paper production machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Packaging Corporation of America
- **Location:** 7200 Mars Dr., WACO, TEXAS, 76712
- **NAICS:** 322211
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee's hand was caught between a roll of paper and a machine mechanism while the paper was being loaded into the machine. The employee suffered a partial amputation to the right ring finger, losing the pad of the first knuckle and part of the bone.

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