# Amputations at Cheese Merchants of America LLC
> OSHA SIR `2021020905` · 2/1/2021 · BARTLETT, ILLINOIS
## 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, bottling, wrapping machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Cheese Merchants of America LLC
- **Location:** 1301 Schiferl, BARTLETT, ILLINOIS, 60103
- **NAICS:** 311513
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a flexible packaging machine that filled, sealed, cut, and discharged plastic bags filled with shredded cheese. As the filled bag of cheese was exiting the machine onto a metal load plate that agitated up and down for the purpose of settling the cheese in the bag, the employee's right pinky finger was caught between the agitating load plate and it's base platform beneath. The employee suffered a partial amputation of the finger.

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