# Amputations at Dye Candy Company dba Chase Candy Company
> OSHA SIR `20171211632` · 12/7/2017 · SAINT JOSEPH, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Slip without fall, unspecified
- **Source:** Bodily motion or position of injured, ill worker
## Employer
- **Name:** Dye Candy Company dba Chase Candy Company
- **Location:** 1307 S. 59th Street, SAINT JOSEPH, MISSOURI, 64507
- **NAICS:** 311340
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was spreading out peanuts in a hopper, slipped and caught his hand in the bottom of the hopper resulting in amputation of the left middle fingertip.

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