# Amputations at Paragon Films, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2022109490` · 10/29/2022 · BROKEN ARROW, OKLAHOMA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Grinders, abraders
- **Secondary source:** Scrap, waste, debris, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Paragon Films, Inc.
- **Location:** 3500 West Tacoma Street, BROKEN ARROW, OKLAHOMA, 74012
- **NAICS:** 326113
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was unclogging cut-off film from a grinder rotor blade. The clogged film came loose and the employee's hand was pulled between the rotor blades. The employee's middle finger was amputated at the bottom of the nail bed; their ring finger was amputated at the middle of the nail bed.

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