# Amputations at Samoa Tuna Processors Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2016098463` · 9/7/2016 · PAGO PAGO, AMERICAN SAMOA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Packaging, bottling, wrapping machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Samoa Tuna Processors Inc.
- **Location:** Route 1, Atu'u, PAGO PAGO, AMERICAN SAMOA, 96799
- **NAICS:** 236220
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning a packer machine when his hand contacted the area where a compressing piston was moving and his right index finger was squashed. His right index finger had to be surgically amputated.

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