# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Utz Quality Foods, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2024109229` · 10/3/2024 · HANOVER, PENNSYLVANIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Thumb(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Machinery  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Towels, linens, bedding
## Employer
- **Name:** Utz Quality Foods, Inc.
- **Location:** 1437 Broadway, HANOVER, PENNSYLVANIA, 17331
- **NAICS:** 311919
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning a chain when their towel became caught in the chain and sprocket, resulting in a partial amputation of their right thumb.

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