# Amputations at Performance Pallet Corp.
> OSHA SIR `2017065652` · 6/20/2017 · SEYMOUR, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **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:** Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Performance Pallet Corp.
- **Location:** 112 N Mainline Drive, SEYMOUR, WISCONSIN, 54165
- **NAICS:** 321920
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was performing maintenance work on a wood packaging line to fix a portion of plastic that was stuck when his left middle finger was pinched between the machine basket and a metal bar frame, amputating it above the first knuckle.

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