# Amputations at Menasha Packaging, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2023021440` · 2/15/2023 · EDWARDSVILLE, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Conveyors-roller
- **Secondary source:** Skids, pallets
## Employer
- **Name:** Menasha Packaging, LLC
- **Location:** 9 Gateway Commerce Center Dr E., EDWARDSVILLE, ILLINOIS, 62025
- **NAICS:** 322220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee loaded a pallet with packaged product and was preparing to put it on a conveyor when their right index finger was caught between the manual conveyor rollers and the pallet. The employee sustained a right index fingertip amputation.

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