# Amputations at AEP INDUSTRIES INC
> OSHA SIR `2015010729` · 1/23/2015 · MOUNTAIN TOP, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Nonclassifiable
## Employer
- **Name:** AEP INDUSTRIES INC
- **Location:** 20 ELMWOOD AVENUE, CRESTWOOD IND. PARK, MOUNTAIN TOP, PENNSYLVANIA, 18707
- **NAICS:** 326113
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was removing a roll from a machine during normal routine operation when he dropped a heavy core and pinched his finger between two objects. His right ring finger was amputated from the tip to roughly one half of the nailbed. The first knuckle is intact.

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