# Amputations at Whole Foods Market, Store #10336
> OSHA SIR `2018088236` · 8/12/2018 · GLASTONBURY, CONNECTICUT
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment
- **Source:** Butchering machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Whole Foods Market, Store #10336
- **Location:** 55 Welles Street, GLASTONBURY, CONNECTICUT, 06033
- **NAICS:** 445110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cutting meat with a band saw when the sawblade cut his left thumb, resulting in a thumb tip amputation. The blade was unguarded at the time of the incident.

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