# Amputations at Hershey Company Reese Plant
> OSHA SIR `2021065330` · 6/30/2021 · HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Special process machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Hershey Company Reese Plant
- **Location:** 925 Reese Avenue, HERSHEY, PENNSYLVANIA, 17033
- **NAICS:** 311330
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee had been changing out a vacuum head. The employee was sweeping away waste candy when their right index finger was caught between a mold and a guide bar resulting in a fingertip amputation.

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