# Amputations at Packaging Corporation of America
> OSHA SIR `2018010436` · 1/14/2018 · GARLAND, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Conveyors-belt
## Employer
- **Name:** Packaging Corporation of America
- **Location:** 2510 W. Miller Road, GARLAND, TEXAS, 75041
- **NAICS:** 322219
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was pushing a stack of boxes that became stuck on a conveyor belt when the employee's right ring finger was caught and amputated between the belt and pulley.

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