# Amputations at CONAGRA FOODS
> OSHA SIR `2017099251` · 9/27/2017 · TRENTON, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Mixers, blenders, whippers-food and beverage
## Employer
- **Name:** CONAGRA FOODS
- **Location:** 1401 Harris Avenue, TRENTON, MISSOURI, 64683
- **NAICS:** 311612
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a scouring pad to clean out meat in the door of a blender when the employee's left middle finger was caught in the blender ribbons, amputating the distal tip. The blender was not locked out at the time of the incident.

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