# Amputations at Twin Rivers Paper Company
> OSHA SIR `2020054279` · 5/7/2020 · PINE BLUFF, ARKANSAS
## 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:** Slitters, winders-paper production
## Employer
- **Name:** Twin Rivers Paper Company
- **Location:** 1701 Jefferson Parkway, PINE BLUFF, ARKANSAS, 71601
- **NAICS:** 322121
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was changing out a paper roll set on a winder. The core chucks were being retracted, and he was clearing a piece of paper from them when the tip of his left index finger was caught in the wedge hole. As the chuck retracted into the outer cylinder, about a centimeter of the fingertip was sheared off.

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