# Amputations at Hostess Brands, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2018077460` · 7/23/2018 · CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Food and beverage processing machinery-specialized, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Hostess Brands, LLC
- **Location:** 2035 N. Narragansett, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, 60639
- **NAICS:** 311812
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was replacing the bearings on an icing station machine's belt as part of regular preventive maintenance when the shaft came off from the other side and tilted against the frame, catching the employee's thumb between the shaft and frame. The employee's left thumb was smashed, resulting in a partial amputation with bone loss.

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