# Amputations at Poly-America, L.P.
> OSHA SIR `2021010521` · 1/20/2021 · GRAND PRAIRIE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Poly-America, L.P.
- **Location:** 2000 W. Marshall Drive, GRAND PRAIRIE, TEXAS, 75051
- **NAICS:** 326113
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was stacking plastic bags and staging them to lift off a transfer table. When the employee lifted a stack of bags, her right pinky finger was pinched by a transfer belt, resulting in a partial amputation of her fingertip (without bone loss).

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