# Amputations at Polyflex, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2023076706` · 7/25/2023 · WALWORTH, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Polyflex, Inc.
- **Location:** 720 Kenosha Street, WALWORTH, WISCONSIN, 53184
- **NAICS:** 326199
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was performing equipment maintenance when he lost his balance and placed his hand down to stabilize himself. The employee's finger entered a nip point of a moving plunger, resulting in a fingertip avulsion that required amputation.

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