# Amputations at Freshpet, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2020043305` · 4/11/2020 · BETHLEHEM, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Food and beverage processing machinery-specialized, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Handtools-nonpowered, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Freshpet, Inc.
- **Location:** 176 N. Commerce Way, BETHLEHEM, PENNSYLVANIA, 18017
- **NAICS:** 311111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was unjamming a piece of frozen meat from a locked-out auger. When the employee inserted a T-handled bar into the winding down auger, the bar moved, and pinched the employee's hand against the machine's fixed guard. The employee sustained an amputation.

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