# Amputations at Southern Tea Company LLC
> OSHA SIR `2023021054` · 2/2/2023 · MOORESTOWN, NEW JERSEY
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Southern Tea Company LLC
- **Location:** 344 New Albany Road, MOORESTOWN, NEW JERSEY, 08057
- **NAICS:** 311920
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was clearing a jam on a packing machine when her left hand contacted the sealing jaws, resulting in an amputation of the middle fingertip and an avulsion of the ring fingernail.

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