# Amputations at GateHouse Media Kansas Holdings II, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2023032826` · 3/30/2023 · HUTCHINSON, KANSAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
- **Source:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** GateHouse Media Kansas Holdings II, Inc.
- **Location:** 300 West 2nd Avenue, HUTCHINSON, KANSAS, 67501
- **NAICS:** 511110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was picking up newspapers that fell from a machine that carried the papers from one side of the facility to the other. The employee's right index finger was caught in a vent hole on the machine's motor guard, and was partially amputated.

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