# Amputations at Tropichem Research Labs, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2023054183` · 5/9/2023 · JUPITER, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Bottling, canning, filling machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Tropichem Research Labs, LLC
- **Location:** 15843 Guild Court, JUPITER, FLORIDA, 33478
- **NAICS:** 325412
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working in the filling room, filling shampoo bottles, when the automatic filler became jammed with a bottle. As the employee went to fix it, the feeder belt grabbed her hand and amputated two fingertips. The machine was unguarded at the time.

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