# Amputations at Baxter Packaging LLC
> OSHA SIR `20231110760` · 11/22/2023 · LONGVIEW, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Special process machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Baxter Packaging LLC
- **Location:** 770 South Eastman Road, LONGVIEW, TEXAS, 75602
- **NAICS:** 322211
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee had been catching boxes as they came out of a gluing machine. The employee was working to free a box from the machine when her left middle fingertip was caught in the chain sprocket. The employee's fingertip was amputated. The machine was not guarded at the time of the incident.

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