# Amputations at Sonoco Products Company
> OSHA SIR `2022098537` · 9/27/2022 · HARTSELLE, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Stacking machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Sonoco Products Company
- **Location:** 1901 John D Long Drive Southeast, HARTSELLE, ALABAMA, 35640
- **NAICS:** 321999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was performing maintenance on a stacker system. Slack developed in a chain, and when it tightened the employee's left little finger was caught in the chain and sprocket. The finger was amputated.

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