# Amputations at JTM Foods, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2017098473` · 9/2/2017 · ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **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:** Machinery, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Textiles, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** JTM Foods, LLC
- **Location:** 2126 East 33rd Street, ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA, 16510
- **NAICS:** 311812
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning a machine chain with a rag when the rag became caught in the chain, pulling it and the employee's left index finger into the chain. His finger was amputated to the second knuckle. The machine was unguarded at the time.

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