# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Printpack
> OSHA SIR `2024087376` · 8/12/2024 · VILLA RICA, GEORGIA
## 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:** Special process machinery  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Drives, belts, chains
## Employer
- **Name:** Printpack
- **Location:** 297 Andrew Way, VILLA RICA, GEORGIA, 30180
- **NAICS:** 423990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On August 12, 2024 at 9:40 PM, an employee was preparing to run a job on a machine by webbing the machine when they noticed that there was a piece of film attached to the thread chain. They were manually removing it when their left thumb was pinched between the thread chain and a sprocket, resulting in an amputation to the tip of their thumb.

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