# Amputations at Anchor Packaging LLC
> OSHA SIR `2023054449` · 5/18/2023 · PARAGOULD, ARKANSAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
- **Source:** Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Anchor Packaging LLC
- **Location:** 2211 N 12 Ave, PARAGOULD, ARKANSAS, 72450
- **NAICS:** 326113
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was clearing non-conforming product off a packaging table. As the employee went to clear a piece of plastic from the trim press, the press cycled and caught the employee's left hand. The employee's middle and ring fingertips were amputated and they sustained lacerations to the left hand.

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