# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Hershey Chocolate & Confectionery Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2024043493` · 4/22/2024 · ROBINSON, ILLINOIS
## 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  n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Hershey Chocolate & Confectionery Corporation
- **Location:** 1401 WEST MAIN STREET, ROBINSON, ILLINOIS, 62454
- **NAICS:** 311351
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On April 22, 2024, at about 8:20 AM, an employee was cleaning fudge and caramel build-up from the underside of the grate of a peanut chain conveyor on a forming machine. The conveyor caught their right index fingertip between a puck and the metal opening to the conveyor tube, resulting in an amputation.

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