# Amputations involving bone loss at Prime Packing, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2024032344` · 3/15/2024 · CENTER, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Bottling, canning, filling machinery
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Prime Packing, LLC
- **Location:** 3501 CR 53, CENTER, COLORADO, 81125
- **NAICS:** 311999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using the "box machine" to fill empty boxes with potatoes when a box became stuck in the conveyor chain. While clearing the jam, his hand contacted the conveyor chain and he sustained amputations to the four fingers on his right hand to the first knuckle on each.

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