# Amputations at Star Plastics, Inc
> OSHA SIR `2021043134` · 4/14/2021 · RAVENSWOOD, WEST VIRGINIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Star Plastics, Inc
- **Location:** 1 Plastics Ave, RAVENSWOOD, WEST VIRGINIA, 26164
- **NAICS:** 325211
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was setting up a line and noticed that a polytube above a dust hopper feeder had pulled into the transition piece. He removed the lid from the feeder and was reaching in to pull the polytube out when the valve closed on the ends of his index and middle fingers, amputating the pads of his fingers.

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