# Amputations at Frito-Lay
> OSHA SIR `2023021862` · 2/28/2023 · TOPEKA, KANSAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
- **Source:** Nonclassifiable
## Employer
- **Name:** Frito-Lay
- **Location:** 4236 SW Kirklawn Ave., TOPEKA, KANSAS, 66609
- **NAICS:** 311919
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working in the palletizing area, inspecting a right angle gear box when his left index finger was amputated at the middle knuckle by the timing belt of the gear box.

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