# Amputations at KG Marketing and Bag Co., Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2016043578` · 4/22/2016 · WAUKESHA, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Sealing, stapling machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** KG Marketing and Bag Co., Inc.
- **Location:** 1201 S. Grandview Blvd., WAUKESHA, WISCONSIN, 53188
- **NAICS:** 322220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

The employee was cleaning a bag sealing machine cutting blade and the machine cycled resulting in amputation of the right ring fingertip.

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