# Amputations at Wiskerchen Cheese, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2021098124` · 9/21/2021 · AUBURNDALE, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Food slicers
## Employer
- **Name:** Wiskerchen Cheese, Inc.
- **Location:** 5710 County Road H, AUBURNDALE, WISCONSIN, 54412
- **NAICS:** 311513
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

As an employee was removing a wheel of cheese from a hydraulic wheel cutter, her right little fingertip was pinched underneath a cutting wire, resulting in an amputation.

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