# Amputations at Parker Plastics, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20211210451` · 12/6/2021 · SAND SPRINGS, OKLAHOMA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Parker Plastics, Inc.
- **Location:** 101 S. Woodland Drive, SAND SPRINGS, OKLAHOMA, 74063
- **NAICS:** 326160
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was checking the regrind material level in a machine's regrinding bin. Noticing that the level was high, the employee opened the bin door and saw some handle slugs on top of the material. The employee, believing there was a clog, reached through the bin and into the blender's throat. The low-level sensor became uncovered, causing the slide gate of the blender to close and catch the end of the employee's right middle finger. The employee suffered a fingertip amputation.

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