# Amputations at JSKemp & Brothers, LLC.
> OSHA SIR `2017043911` · 4/30/2017 · EAST PALATKA, FLORIDA
## 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:** Conveyors-chain
## Employer
- **Name:** JSKemp & Brothers, LLC.
- **Location:** 105 Power Line Road, EAST PALATKA, FLORIDA, 32131
- **NAICS:** 115115
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was waiting for potatoes to be graded (using a bulk grader) so that he could load them onto a tractor trailer when he noticed a bad potato on the conveyor. When he attempted to pull the bad potato out, his right index finger was caught in the conveyor's moving chain and sprocket, amputating it to the first joint.

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