# Amputations at Price Chopper Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2015052853` · 5/13/2015 · MATAMORAS, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment
- **Source:** Butchering machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Price Chopper Corporation
- **Location:** 1025 Pennsylvania Avenue, MATAMORAS, PENNSYLVANIA, 18336
- **NAICS:** 445110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cutting pork on a meat cutting bandsaw in the meat department of the store. While he was cutting the pork, he looked up and cut his right ring fingertip and fractured his middle finger. The bandsaw had a guard in place at the time of the incident.

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