# Amputations at Hilex Poly Co LLC
> OSHA SIR `20171211547` · 12/5/2017 · BELLEFONTE, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
- **Source:** Printing machinery and equipment, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Hilex Poly Co LLC
- **Location:** 600 Old Curtian Road, BELLEFONTE, PENNSYLVANIA, 16823
- **NAICS:** 326111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was changing a machine's name plate when the employee's fingers became caught in the ingoing nip point between the machine's plate and arch cylinders, partially amputating the index, middle, and ring fingers.

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