# Amputations at PetDine, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2022021465` · 2/15/2022 · FORT COLLINS, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Food and beverage processing machinery-specialized, unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Handtools-nonpowered, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** PetDine, LLC
- **Location:** 4700 Innovation Drive Building B, FORT COLLINS, COLORADO, 80525
- **NAICS:** 311119
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a 4-foot paddle to clean out a hopper that discharges pet-chew product into an extruder. The paddle contacted the extruder's auger and was pulled into the hopper. The employee's finger was cut by a sharp edge on the hopper. He sustained a partial fingertip amputation with an open fracture. The hopper was running at the time.

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