# Amputations at Waste Management of Pennsylvania, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2022032900` · 3/3/2022 · PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Banding, baling, strapping machinery
- **Secondary source:** Wire, cables-nonelectrical
## Employer
- **Name:** Waste Management of Pennsylvania, Inc.
- **Location:** 5201 Bleigh Ave, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, 19136
- **NAICS:** 562111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was attempting to clear a wire jam on a paper baler. The employee pulled on the steel baler wire when the wire moved and the employee suffered a finger amputation.

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