# Amputations at Spoetzl Brewery, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018066280` · 6/25/2018 · SHINER, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Product labeling machinery
- **Secondary source:** Brooms, mops, and other cleaning tools
## Employer
- **Name:** Spoetzl Brewery, Inc.
- **Location:** 603 East Brewery Street, SHINER, TEXAS, 77984
- **NAICS:** 312120
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning a label machine. He was jogging the machine and cleaning glue off the glue roller when the sponge he was using got caught between the roller and the pallet, pulling in his fingers. Part of his right middle finger was detached and the tip of the ring finger was crushed.

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