# Amputations at Flowers Foods, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2021065133` · 6/23/2021 · PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Heating and cooking machinery and appliances, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Flowers Foods, Inc.
- **Location:** 4300 South 26th St, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, 19112
- **NAICS:** 311812
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning a baking machine with a water hose when their left index finger got caught within a chain and sprocket that was driving the machine's conveyor, resulting in amputation.

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