# Amputations at Riceland Foods- Stuttgart Rice Division
> OSHA SIR `2015063400` · 6/3/2015 · STUTTGART, ARKANSAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Machine and appliance parts, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Riceland Foods- Stuttgart Rice Division
- **Location:** 107 E 1ST STREET, STUTTGART, ARKANSAS, 72160
- **NAICS:** 311212
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

The injured employee and another co-worker were loading a roll of poly with a rod onto the Line 12 packing machine. The rod goes through the center of a poly-roll. The injured employee was setting the rod into the machine and smashed her left index finger between the rod and the packing machine, amputating the left index fingertip.

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