# Amputations at Kraft Heinz Foods Company
> OSHA SIR `2019088988` · 8/29/2019 · DOVER, DELAWARE
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Kraft Heinz Foods Company
- **Location:** 1250 W North St, DOVER, DELAWARE, 19904
- **NAICS:** 311999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using an industrial size dust collector (vacuum) to clear out a packaging machine. The employee's hand became caught in a turning valve roll in the packaging machine, resulting in the amputation of the right index and middle fingertips. The machine was running 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*