# Amputations at Dietz & Watson, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2023087391` · 8/14/2023 · PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
- **Source:** Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery
- **Secondary source:** Handtools-nonpowered, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Dietz & Watson, Inc.
- **Location:** 5701 Tacony Street, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, 19135
- **NAICS:** 311612
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was removing a piece of plastic film in front of the vacuum of a hot dog packaging machine when the metal tool he was using was caught in a rotating part. The employee's hand was pulled in and the metal tool amputated the fingertip portion of his right middle finger to the bone.

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