# Amputations at SCHREIBER FOODS INC.
> OSHA SIR `20171211460` · 12/2/2017 · CARTHAGE, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Nonclassifiable
## Employer
- **Name:** SCHREIBER FOODS INC.
- **Location:** 127 Claxton Ave, CARTHAGE, MISSOURI, 64836
- **NAICS:** 311612
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was breaking down equipment for shut down. He was cleaning a heater when his right ring finger was pinched between the heater and an anvil, removing the soft tissue and fingernail from his fingertip.

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