# Amputations at Bektrom Foods, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2016054388` · 5/19/2016 · CANDO, NORTH DAKOTA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Bektrom Foods, Inc.
- **Location:** 1301 Fifth Avenue, CANDO, NORTH DAKOTA, 58324
- **NAICS:** 311824
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was removing plastic from the sprocket of a machine when his right thumb was pulled in and amputated above the knuckle. The machine was running at the time of the incident.

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