# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Joy Baking Group
> OSHA SIR `2024032623` · 3/23/2024 · HERMITAGE, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Food and beverage processing machinery  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Machine guards
## Employer
- **Name:** Joy Baking Group
- **Location:** 3435 Lamor Road, HERMITAGE, PENNSYLVANIA, 16148
- **NAICS:** 311812
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was attempting to find the reason sugar was not feeding through the batter system when the blade caught the employee s right middle finger resulting in an amputation. The machine was guarded 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*