# Amputations at Quad/Graphics, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017109440` · 10/1/2017 · SARATOGA SPRINGS, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Sewing, stitching machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Quad/Graphics, Inc.
- **Location:** 56 Duplainville Rd., SARATOGA SPRINGS, NEW YORK, 12866
- **NAICS:** 323110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a leather sewing machine when a cardboard guard dropped off the machine. As he reached to the floor to pick it up, his left pinky fingertip was caught and amputated in the drive belt where the cardboard guard had been.

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