# Amputations involving bone loss at Whole Foods Market
> OSHA SIR `2024065302` · 6/15/2024 · COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
- **Source:** Meat grinders
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Whole Foods Market
- **Location:** 7635 N. Academy Blvd., COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO, 80920
- **NAICS:** 445110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was pushing meat into a grinder when his right index finger was caught in the grinder, resulting in a partial amputation to the first knuckle.

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