# Amputations at Quad Graphics, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2023021173` · 2/6/2023 · SARATOGA SPRINGS, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Presses-printing
## Employer
- **Name:** Quad Graphics, Inc.
- **Location:** 56 DUPLAINVILLE ROAD, SARATOGA SPRINGS, NEW YORK, 12866
- **NAICS:** 323110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Maintenance employees were replacing a gear box in the stacker of a press. After the replacement was complete, the stacker was restarted. The maintenance employees then heard a loud noise coming from the drive chain area and the injured employee went to check the chain tension when the machine amputated his right index fingertip.

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