# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Clearwater Paper Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2024054742` · 5/30/2024 · ARKANSAS CITY, ARKANSAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Separating and conversion machinery  n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Valves, nozzles
## Employer
- **Name:** Clearwater Paper Corporation
- **Location:** 5082 HWY 4 N, ARKANSAS CITY, ARKANSAS, 71630
- **NAICS:** 322130
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was removing a hard salt cake plug in a rotary dust valve on a precipitator in the utilities department. Their left ring fingertip was amputated by the rotary dust valve.

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