# Amputations at The Pictsweet Company
> OSHA SIR `2019010516` · 1/15/2019 · MONTE ALTO, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **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:** The Pictsweet Company
- **Location:** 25549 FM 88, MONTE ALTO, TEXAS, 78538
- **NAICS:** 311412
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was trying to push a bar that had jammed the chain and the sprockets of a plate freezer machine when his left first finger was caught between the chain and sprockets, resulting in an amputation of his finger.

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