# Amputations at StarKist Company
> OSHA SIR `2023087251` · 8/9/2023 · PAGO PAGO, AMERICAN SAMOA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment
- **Source:** Bottling, canning, filling machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** StarKist Company
- **Location:** Main Road at Atu'u, PAGO PAGO, AMERICAN SAMOA, 96799
- **NAICS:** 311711
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was pushing pieces of fish into a filler machine when her fingers contacted the knife of the filler machine. The employee's index and ring fingers were amputated.

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