# Amputations at Shanks Extracts, Incorporated
> OSHA SIR `2019055114` · 5/21/2019 · LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA
## 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 regular operation
- **Source:** Special process machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Shanks Extracts, Incorporated
- **Location:** 350 Richardson Road, LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA, 17603
- **NAICS:** 311942
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was adjusting the pouch line machine and amputated his right ring finger just below the first knuckle.

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