# Amputations at Nittany Paper Mills, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2023032393` · 3/16/2023 · LEWISTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Forklift, order picker, platform truck-powered
## Employer
- **Name:** Nittany Paper Mills, LLC
- **Location:** 6395 Pennsylvania State Route 103 North, LEWISTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA, 17044
- **NAICS:** 322291
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning the maintenance shop and dumping debris in a dumpster using a forklift. As the employee was dumping the debris, their left hand was caught between the 5-yard metal hopper and the forklift forks, resulting in a left index fingertip amputation.

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