# Amputations at Sovena USA, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `20181111983` · 11/21/2018 · ROME, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Bottling, canning, filling machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Sovena USA, Inc.
- **Location:** 1 Olive Grove Street, ROME, NEW YORK, 13441
- **NAICS:** 311223
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was removing glue from the label paddles on a filling line. The employee's finger was pinched and amputated between a paddle and rollers. The machine was guarded at the time of the incident.

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