# Amputations at Pretium Packaging, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2022032172` · 3/10/2022 · LEIPSIC, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Packaging, bottling, wrapping machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Pretium Packaging, LLC
- **Location:** 150 S. Werner, LEIPSIC, OHIO, 45856
- **NAICS:** 326160
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On March 10, 2021, an employee was trying to start a sleever machine (used to slide a plastic label over a plastic bottle). He was lifting the sleever's handle with his right arm while pushing on the lift lever with his left hand. The lift rose and about 1/4 inch of the employee's left middle fingertip was pinched between it and the lever. The quarter-inch of fingertip was amputated.

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