# Amputations at Gaeta Recycling Co., Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018043459` · 4/10/2018 · FRANKLIN LAKES, NEW JERSEY
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Garbage, recycling, or refuse truck
## Employer
- **Name:** Gaeta Recycling Co., Inc.
- **Location:** Sherwood Palce, FRANKLIN LAKES, NEW JERSEY, 07417
- **NAICS:** 562111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was putting vegetation into a hopper when two of his left-hand fingers were amputated by the hopper blade roller.

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