# Amputations at Packswell Technologies, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2018010297` · 1/10/2018 · RIPLEY, MISSISSIPPI
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Rolling mills, rolling, calendering machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Packswell Technologies, LLC
- **Location:** 2570 County RD 501, RIPLEY, MISSISSIPPI, 38663
- **NAICS:** 325212
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was manually pushing trail rubber through the nip point of a calendar machine when his right hand became trapped in the nip point. His right hand and part of his wrist were amputated and he was hospitalized.

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