# Amputations at Vita Line Products, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20171212376` · 12/30/2017 · HAZLETON, 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:** Special process machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Vita Line Products, Inc.
- **Location:** 1111 N. Park Drive, HAZLETON, PENNSYLVANIA, 18202
- **NAICS:** 311111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On December 30, 2017, at approximately 3:30 PM, an employee was attempting to clean clogged meat from a drain on a meat stuffer machine when a grinder unit in the drain caught his right index finger, amputating it to the first knuckle.

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