# Amputations at Dorada Foods
> OSHA SIR `2017021830` · 2/27/2017 · PONCA CITY, OKLAHOMA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Valves, nozzles
## Employer
- **Name:** Dorada Foods
- **Location:** 2000 Hall Blvd., PONCA CITY, OKLAHOMA, 74601
- **NAICS:** 311999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

The employee was assembling a pneumatic activated butterfly valve assembly.  He also attached the air source to it. As the employee was reinstalling the valve his right thumb was inside the valve assembly. The valve activated pinching the employee's right thumb tip resulting in amputation of the thumb tip including bone and the nail.

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