# Amputations at Continental Plastic Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2022010555` · 1/19/2022 · DELAVAN, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Handtools-power not determined, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Continental Plastic Corporation
- **Location:** 540 S. Second Street, DELAVAN, WISCONSIN, 53115
- **NAICS:** 326199
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee noticed that plastic film was sticking to a die on a machine that cuts the film into boot shapes. The employee was using a tool to apply corn starch powder to the conveyor belt when the tool became lodged in an ingoing nip point. The nip point then caught the employee's right index finger and partially amputated the fingertip.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · AI Analytics · CC0 1.0*