# Amputations involving bone loss at Midwest Packaging & Container, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024064923` · 6/4/2024 · MACHESNEY PARK, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  unspecified
- **Source:** Industrial printing machinery
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Midwest Packaging & Container, Inc.
- **Location:** 9718 Forest Hills Rd., MACHESNEY PARK, ILLINOIS, 61115
- **NAICS:** 322211
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was catching a falling die board on a box printer cutter machine when his right hand became caught in the flexo machine. The employee sustained amputations to his index finger at the first knuckle and the middle fingertip above the second knuckle. He was hospitalized.

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