# Amputations at Cajun Sugar Company, LLC
> OSHA SIR `20181010776` · 10/18/2018 · NEW IBERIA, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Cajun Sugar Company, LLC
- **Location:** 2711 Northside Road, NEW IBERIA, LOUISIANA, 70563
- **NAICS:** 311314
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was descending from a two-step ladder. He was holding onto a core sampler when his right middle and ring fingers entered a 2" gap between a hydraulic pipe. A tube then came down and amputated his two fingertips.

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