# Amputations at Utz Quality Foods, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2023043489` · 4/19/2023 · BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
- **Source:** Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Utz Quality Foods, LLC
- **Location:** 1 Golden Flake Drive, BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA, 35205
- **NAICS:** 311919
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was installing/stringing film around a packaging machine's former when their index finger became caught between the drive belt and pulley. They sustained a crush injury to the fingertip that was medically amputated to the distal joint.

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