# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Astor Chocolate Corp.
> OSHA SIR `2024021310` · 2/12/2024 · LAKEWOOD, NEW JERSEY
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
- **Source:** Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery
- **Secondary source:** Machine guards
## Employer
- **Name:** Astor Chocolate Corp.
- **Location:** 651 New Hampshire Ave, LAKEWOOD, NEW JERSEY, 08701
- **NAICS:** 311320
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was getting chocolate product from the outfeed of a wrapping machine when the rotating elevator that pushes wrapped chocolate onto the outfeed ramp caught her right middle fingertip, resulting in a partial fingertip amputation. The machine was guarded and in operation at the time of the incident.

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