# Amputations at Fresh Express Incorporated
> OSHA SIR `2023032006` · 3/3/2023 · STREAMWOOD, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Food slicers
## Employer
- **Name:** Fresh Express Incorporated
- **Location:** 1109 E. Lake Street, STREAMWOOD, ILLINOIS, 60107
- **NAICS:** 311412
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was unjamming a translicer on a trim line when the blade amputated four fingers from their right hand. The machine was not guarded at the time of the incident.

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