# Amputations at LAMB WESTON, INC.
> OSHA SIR `2019032309` · 3/4/2019 · DELHI, LOUISIANA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Metal, woodworking, and special material machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** LAMB WESTON, INC.
- **Location:** 77 Highway 609, DELHI, LOUISIANA, 71232
- **NAICS:** 311411
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was changing a knife blade on a cutter machine. The blade amputated the tip of her left thumb.

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