# Amputations at Landmark Plastics Corporation
> OSHA SIR `20201110996` · 11/20/2020 · AKRON, OHIO
## 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:** Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Landmark Plastics Corporation
- **Location:** 1331 Kelly Ave, AKRON, OHIO, 44306
- **NAICS:** 326199
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was trying to pull a part out of the outfeed end of a thermoformer. The scrap wrapped around the chain, which pulled the scrap backwards and in turn pulled her hand into the scrap shear. The shear actuated and amputated her middle, ring, and little fingers above the knuckle.

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