# Amputations involving bone loss at Publix Super Markets, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024010661` · 1/22/2024 · LAKELAND, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
- **Source:** Extruding, injecting, forming, molding machinery  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Machine guards
## Employer
- **Name:** Publix Super Markets, Inc.
- **Location:** 3045 New Tampa Hwy., LAKELAND, FLORIDA, 33815
- **NAICS:** 445110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was adjusting a blow mold machine when his right little finger was caught in the machine and amputated. The machine was guarded at the time.

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