# Amputations at Cal-Maine Foods
> OSHA SIR `2017043193` · 4/9/2017 · WAELDER, TEXAS
## 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:** Conveyors-screw, auger
## Employer
- **Name:** Cal-Maine Foods
- **Location:** 748 County Road 422, WAELDER, TEXAS, 78959
- **NAICS:** 112310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was repairing a feed line auger that had tension in the system. The employee thought he had the energy released, but it was spring loaded. When the energy released, it pinched his finger against the cage. His finger was surgically amputated.

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