# Amputations at Dutch American Foods Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018033072` · 3/30/2018 · CRETE, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
- **Source:** Mixers, blenders, whippers-food and beverage
## Employer
- **Name:** Dutch American Foods Inc.
- **Location:** 25393 Dixie Highway, CRETE, ILLINOIS, 60417
- **NAICS:** 311423
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee's right hand was inside a pneumatic-powered slide gate of a blender clearing debris when the slide gate valve amputated the employee's index finger.

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