# Amputations at Sharpline Converting, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20181111678` · 11/13/2018 · WICHITA, KANSAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Parts and materials, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Presses-printing
## Employer
- **Name:** Sharpline Converting, Inc.
- **Location:** 1520 S Tyler, WICHITA, KANSAS, 67209
- **NAICS:** 323111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee and a coworker were retrieving a large aluminum-frame screen from among several other aluminum-frame screens. One of the screens hit the employee's left index finger, catching it against the side of a press and causing an amputation to the fingertip.

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