# Amputations at JOHN VOLPI & COMPANY
> OSHA SIR `20191212620` · 12/9/2019 · SAINT LOUIS, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** JOHN VOLPI & COMPANY
- **Location:** 5263 Northrup Ave., SAINT LOUIS, MISSOURI, 63110
- **NAICS:** 311999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was making a routine adjustment on the slicing line of a repack machine when the machine's cross-cutting knife amputated the employee's middle and ring fingers near the first knuckle.

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