# Amputations at S&B Pharma, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017098578` · 9/6/2017 · FENTON, MISSOURI
## 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 regular operation
- **Source:** Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** S&B Pharma, Inc.
- **Location:** 1733 Gilsinn Lane, FENTON, MISSOURI, 63026
- **NAICS:** 325412
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a cartoner when his hand entered the running machinery, amputating his thumb from the tip to the first knuckle.

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