# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at BelGioioso Cheese, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024043444` · 4/19/2024 · FREEDOM, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Dairy and milk processing machinery
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** BelGioioso Cheese, Inc.
- **Location:** 4056 Vine Road, FREEDOM, WISCONSIN, 54913
- **NAICS:** 311513
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was observing a cheese process line. They attempted to remove some cheese build-up from the process line when their right middle finger got pinched in the product molder, resulting in a fingertip amputation.

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