# Amputations at Hood Container of Louisiana, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2021087394` · 8/28/2021 · SAINT FRANCISVILLE, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Banding, baling, strapping machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Hood Container of Louisiana, LLC
- **Location:** 2105 Hwy 964, SAINT FRANCISVILLE, LOUISIANA, 70775
- **NAICS:** 322130
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was troubleshooting a bander. As he was trying to move a folded piece of paper in the bander, the strap head caught his left middle finger, causing an amputation. He was hospitalized.

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