# Amputations at Applied Plastics Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2023098662` · 9/19/2023 · OAK CREEK, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Sawing machinery-stationary, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Applied Plastics Company, Inc.
- **Location:** 7320 S. 6th, OAK CREEK, WISCONSIN, 53154
- **NAICS:** 326122
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using an electric saw to cut product and observed something stuck in the saw. As the employee was clearing the item, the saw activated and amputated two fingertips from their right hand.

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