# Amputations at Joseph's Food Products Co Inc
> OSHA SIR `2022098112` · 9/13/2022 · BROADVIEW, ILLINOIS
## 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:** Meat grinders
## Employer
- **Name:** Joseph's Food Products Co Inc
- **Location:** 2759 South 25th Avenue, BROADVIEW, ILLINOIS, 60155
- **NAICS:** 311999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

A temporary employee was unclogging frozen meat that had stuck to a meat grinder as it thawed. The employee suffered partial amputations to the right middle and ring fingers.

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