# Amputations at Custom Processing Services, Incorporated
> OSHA SIR `20231110589` · 11/16/2023 · READING, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Extruding machinery
- **Secondary source:** Belts, gloves, neckties, scarves
## Employer
- **Name:** Custom Processing Services, Incorporated
- **Location:** 1 Birchmont Drive, READING, PENNSYLVANIA, 19606
- **NAICS:** 325998
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was monitoring the workstation for an extruder. The employee was working to unjam/pull wax material off the rollers when their gloved left hand was pulled into the rollers. The employee sustained amputations to their index finger, middle finger, and thumb. The machine was running at the time and was not guarded.

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