# Amputations at Bar-S Foods Co., A Sigma Company
> OSHA SIR `2022097799` · 9/1/2022 · LAWTON, OKLAHOMA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Bar-S Foods Co., A Sigma Company
- **Location:** 802 SW Goodyear Blvd., LAWTON, OKLAHOMA, 73505
- **NAICS:** 311612
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee opened a hotdog packaging machine to clear a film jam in the machine. The employee restarted the machine after clearing the jam, but the film began to jam again. The employee attempted to clear the jam again when their left index and middle fingers contacted the shear between the sealing bucket and the sealing head, resulting in partial amputations of the fingers to the bottom of the nail beds.

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