# Amputations at Axium Packaging LLC
> OSHA SIR `20231211545` · 12/21/2023 · JEFFERSON CITY, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Washers, dryers, and cleaning machinery and appliances, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Axium Packaging LLC
- **Location:** 355 North Shamrock Road, JEFFERSON CITY, MISSOURI, 65101
- **NAICS:** 326199
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using air to blow out the air wash to the blender and grinder station. As the employee reached to verify that the air wash was clean, the unit pinched and amputated their fingertip.

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