# Amputations at Black Gold Farms
> OSHA SIR `2017098466` · 9/1/2017 · ARBYRD, MISSOURI
## 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, bottling, wrapping machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Black Gold Farms
- **Location:** 10701 State Hwy 164, ARBYRD, MISSOURI, 63821
- **NAICS:** 311991
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a produce bagger machine to fill sacks with potatoes when the machine's pneumatic clamp crushed the employee's left pinky finger, requiring amputation without bone loss.

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