# Amputations at American Packaging Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2017076489` · 7/13/2017 · COLUMBUS, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker
- **Source:** Machine and appliance parts, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** American Packaging Corporation
- **Location:** 100 APC Way, COLUMBUS, WISCONSIN, 53925
- **NAICS:** 322221
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working at a rotary table and attempted to a lift a cylinder journal that weighed 98 pounds. She immediately went to set the journal down on the nearest available surface. While she setting the journal down, her left ring finger was pinched between the journal and the table, partially amputating her fingertip.

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