# Amputations at Klement's Sausage Company
> OSHA SIR `2020043052` · 4/3/2020 · MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN
## 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:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Klement's Sausage Company
- **Location:** 2650 S Chase Ave., MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, 53207
- **NAICS:** 311999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was unjamming a de-clipper machine. After the air lines were shut down, the clipper head partially amputated the employee's thumb.

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