# Amputations at AEP Industries Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2015010422` · 1/13/2015 · MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Special process machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** AEP Industries Inc.
- **Location:** 2705 Gunterpark Drive West, MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA, 36109
- **NAICS:** 326111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employee was performing maintenance on the Draw Tape Conversion #14 machine and removed the side panel to grease the sprocket and chain without locking out the machine, which was still running.  As he attempted to wipe down the sprocket with a rag, it got caught in the sprocket and pulled his left hand in, causing three fingers to be amputated: two fingers down to the nail, and one below the first knuckle.

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