# Amputations at Kraft Heinz Foods Company
> OSHA SIR `20181212418` · 12/4/2018 · FREMONT, OHIO
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Conveyors-powered, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Kraft Heinz Foods Company
- **Location:** 1200 North Fifth St., FREMONT, OHIO, 43420
- **NAICS:** 311999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was removing ketchup from a fixed pusher bar. The employee's fingernail was caught in the conveyor; the fingernail was removed, the fingertip was amputated, and the distal phalanx was fractured.

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