# Amputations at Gibraltar Packaging, LLC
> OSHA SIR `20161111207` · 11/30/2016 · HASTINGS, NEBRASKA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Banding, baling, strapping machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Gibraltar Packaging, LLC
- **Location:** 200 Sumit Ave., HASTINGS, NEBRASKA, 68901
- **NAICS:** 322226
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was unjamming the core baler machine when the right hand was pulled into the core cutting nip. The employee suffered open fractures to the second, third and fourth digits on the right hand. Two days later the employee's middle fingertip was surgically amputated.

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