# Amputations at Key Polymer Holdings, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2022119633` · 11/2/2022 · LAWRENCE, MASSACHUSETTS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Bottling, canning, filling machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Key Polymer Holdings, LLC
- **Location:** 17 Shepard Street, LAWRENCE, MASSACHUSETTS, 01843
- **NAICS:** 325998
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using an air-operated automatic ball valve on a pail filling line to package 55-gallon drums of product when they sustained an amputation to the tips of their left middle and index fingers.

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