# Amputations at PPC Flexible Packaging, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2022098175` · 9/15/2022 · BUFFALO GROVE, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Printing machinery and equipment, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** PPC Flexible Packaging, LLC
- **Location:** 1111 Busch Parkway, BUFFALO GROVE, ILLINOIS, 60089
- **NAICS:** 323111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning printing equipment. The employee's left hand was caught in the in-running nip point between an anilox roll and a plate, causing amputations to the top of the employee's index, middle, and little fingers.

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