# Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury at Great Lakes Cheese of Wisconsin
> OSHA SIR `20161212041` · 12/30/2016 · LA CROSSE, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Soreness, pain, hurt-nonspecified injury
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Food and beverage processing machinery-specialized, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Great Lakes Cheese of Wisconsin
- **Location:** 2200 Enterprise Avenue, LA CROSSE, WISCONSIN, 54603
- **NAICS:** 311513
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was performing sanitation duties on a machine. The employee removed piping to clean a valve inside. The air source to the machine was not locked out. While cleaning the valve, it actuated and caught her finger. She was hospitalized and the finger may be amputated.

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