# Amputations at Schrieber Foods, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2020109420` · 10/4/2020 · STEPHENVILLE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Bottling, canning, filling machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Schrieber Foods, Inc.
- **Location:** 923 CR 176, STEPHENVILLE, TEXAS, 76401
- **NAICS:** 311991
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was performing scheduled maintenance on the side seal heater section of a filler. He was manually moving the heater bars back and forth when the cylinder engaged and retracted back from a closed position, pinching his finger between the heat bar and the frame of the sealer. He sustained an amputation to a finger.

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