# Amputations at Graphic Packaging International, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2023087156` · 8/7/2023 · QUEEN CITY, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Machine and appliance parts, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Graphic Packaging International, LLC
- **Location:** 9978 FM 3129, QUEEN CITY, TEXAS, 75572
- **NAICS:** 322121
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using prybars to remove a diverter plate from a power boiler bark chute. The lower chute broke free and flipped over. As the employee reached out to try to stop the chute section from falling, his right index finger was pinched between the diverter plate and the bark chute. Their finger was amputated at the first knuckle.

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