# Amputations at Packaging Corporation of America
> OSHA SIR `2023010883` · 1/27/2023 · ARLINGTON, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
- **Source:** Paper production machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Packaging Corporation of America
- **Location:** 1001 113th Street, ARLINGTON, TEXAS, 76011
- **NAICS:** 322212
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was holding a single sheet down to gap the feed gate while the machine was running. When the roll grabbed the sheet, it pulled the employee's finger into the roll, resulting in amputation of the left little fingertip.

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