# Amputations at Riviana Foods Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017065492` · 6/15/2017 · FREEPORT, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Riviana Foods Inc.
- **Location:** 505 Port Rd., FREEPORT, TEXAS, 77541
- **NAICS:** 311999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was removing film from packaging equipment and amputated the upper portion of the left thumb in the jaws of the equipment.

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