# Amputations at Packaging Corporation of America
> OSHA SIR `2018043518` · 4/12/2018 · PLANO, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Printing machinery and equipment, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Packaging Corporation of America
- **Location:** 1800 East Plano Parkway, PLANO, TEXAS, 75074
- **NAICS:** 322211
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning under and around the discharge conveyor of a flexographic printer when the employee's right hand came into contact with the drive chain and pulley, partially amputating the index finger and lacerating the middle and ring fingers.

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