# Amputations at Marathon Cheese Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2017099017` · 9/20/2017 · MEDFORD, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Food and beverage processing machinery-specialized, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Marathon Cheese Corporation
- **Location:** 1000 PROGRESSIVE AVE, MEDFORD, WISCONSIN, 54451
- **NAICS:** 424430
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On September 20, 2017, at approximately 9:00 p.m., an employee was applying anti-caking material to an in-feed incline belt (inside a shredder feed on a conveyor belt) when the employee's left ring finger was caught between the metal idler pulley and the conveyor, amputating the fingertip.

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