# Amputations at Purestat Engineered Technologies, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20171012297` · 10/9/2017 · LEWISTON, MAINE
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
- **Source:** Special process machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Purestat Engineered Technologies, Inc.
- **Location:** 21 Old Farm Road, LEWISTON, MAINE, 04240
- **NAICS:** 326112
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working a bag machine when bags began falling into the machine and into the gears. While attempting to remove the bags, the employee's left index finger became jammed and amputated in a gear.

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