# Amputations at Pepperidge Farm Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2020021610` · 2/18/2020 · LAKELAND, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Packaging, bottling, wrapping machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Pepperidge Farm Inc.
- **Location:** 2222 Interstate Drive, LAKELAND, FLORIDA, 33805
- **NAICS:** 311811
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On 02/18/2020, at 9:15 a.m., an employee was working on a packaging line that was feeding film when product started jamming. As he attempted to get a better visual of the heat cramp sealer, his right hand was pulled into the heat cramp sealer area, resulting in a right thumb tip amputation. The heat cramp sealer was unguarded at the time of the incident.

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