# Amputations at ClearWater Paper Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2023065328` · 6/16/2023 · LEWISTON, IDAHO
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Paper production machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** ClearWater Paper Corporation
- **Location:** 803 MILL ROAD, LEWISTON, IDAHO, 83501
- **NAICS:** 322121
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was assisting three other employees to load a reel of paper into the saddles of an unwind stand when the springs compressed and the gap closed on the injured employee s finger. They sustained an avulsion to the left ring fingertip that was surgically amputated.

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