# Amputations at Panera, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2016010660` · 1/23/2016 · MACON, GEORGIA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Food slicers
## Employer
- **Name:** Panera, LLC
- **Location:** 181 C. Tom Hills Senior Blvd., MACON, GEORGIA, 31210
- **NAICS:** 722513
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee's right middle fingertip was amputated to the first knuckle while the employee was cleaning the rotating blade of a bagel slicer. The slicer was unguarded at the time.

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