# Amputations at Frito Lay, Inc
> OSHA SIR `2020076542` · 7/13/2020 · TOPEKA, KANSAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **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:** Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Frito Lay, Inc
- **Location:** 4236 SW Kirkland Ave, TOPEKA, KANSAS, 66609
- **NAICS:** 424450
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning a packaging machine. While lowering a spiral metal chute, the equipment slammed onto his finger. The employee's right pinky finger was amputated.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*