# Amputations at McCormick & Company, Incorporated (Maryland)
> OSHA SIR `2021032048` · 3/8/2021 · ATLANTA, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
- **Source:** Sealing, stapling machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** McCormick & Company, Incorporated (Maryland)
- **Location:** 5820 Tulane Dr SW, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, 30336
- **NAICS:** 311942
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working on a heat sealer machine. The machine's sealing mechanism caught his left index finger and partially amputated the upper portion.

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