# Amputations at Nittany Paper Mills, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2023076848` · 7/28/2023 · LEWISTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Banding, baling, strapping machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Nittany Paper Mills, LLC
- **Location:** 6395 Pennsylvania State Route 103 North, LEWISTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA, 17044
- **NAICS:** 322291
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was putting cardboard into a vertical baler when the guard came down and partially amputated his left ring finger.

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