# Amputations at Freshpet, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2022076475` · 7/23/2022 · BETHLEHEM, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Conveyors-belt
## Employer
- **Name:** Freshpet, Inc.
- **Location:** 176 N. Commerce Way, BETHLEHEM, PENNSYLVANIA, 18017
- **NAICS:** 311111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning a conveyor belt when his left middle finger was pinched between the belt and a metal housing (lifted so he could clean the belt). He suffered a partial amputation to the finger.

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