# Amputations at Scan-pac Mfg., Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017076830` · 7/21/2017 · MENOMONEE FALLS, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Grinding, polishing machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Scan-pac Mfg., Inc.
- **Location:** N84 W13480 Leon Rd., MENOMONEE FALLS, WISCONSIN, 53051
- **NAICS:** 333613
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working on a sanding machine which had just been turned off, when the machine's belts amputated the employee's fingertip. The belts were rotating at the time of the incident.

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