# Amputations at Southern Classic Food Group
> OSHA SIR `2018088132` · 8/8/2018 · BRUNDIDGE, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Bottling, canning, filling machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Southern Classic Food Group
- **Location:** 1000 Magnolia Blvd, BRUNDIDGE, ALABAMA, 36010
- **NAICS:** 311999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was assembling valves on a filler machine when his left hand was caught between the valve housing and the valve opener, resulting in an amputation of his ring finger's first joint.

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