# Amputations at Granges Americas Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2020021728` · 2/21/2020 · NEWPORT, ARKANSAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Granges Americas Inc.
- **Location:** 3814 Hwy 67 N, NEWPORT, ARKANSAS, 72112
- **NAICS:** 331524
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was manually rotating the rubber ironing roll of a separator to back-thread the tail through the machine in order to make a splice. After making a couple of rotations, the employee's right index finger was caught between the rubber roll and the material on the arbor roll, pinching and causing a partial amputation of the left side of the employee's right index fingertip.

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