# Amputations at Rose Packing Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2023042922` · 4/3/2023 · CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
- **Source:** Packaging, bottling, wrapping machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Rose Packing Company, Inc.
- **Location:** 4900 S. Major Avenue, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, 60638
- **NAICS:** 311612
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On April 3, 2023, an employee was removing a piece of plastic from a machine when the machine cycled and the employee's right index finger was crushed between the forming die box and the forming head of the machine. The employee sustained a partial finger amputation.

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