# Amputations at Tasty Baking Company
> OSHA SIR `2019032729` · 3/14/2019 · PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
- **Source:** Conveyors-belt
## Employer
- **Name:** Tasty Baking Company
- **Location:** 4300 South 26th Street, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, 19112
- **NAICS:** 311812
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working on the end of a spiral cooling conveyor belt. During cooling activities, the employee bent over and placed their hand at the end of the cooling conveyor belt. The metal conveyor belt met with a pointed cylindrical free spinning wheel approximately a half inch from the metal conveyor. The employee's middle finger was caught between the conveyor and the free spinning wheel resulting in an amputation injury.

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