# Amputations at Basic American Ingredients
> OSHA SIR `2019055168` · 5/21/2019 · BLACKFOOT, IDAHO
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Basic American Ingredients
- **Location:** 409 West Collins Road, BLACKFOOT, IDAHO, 83221
- **NAICS:** 423990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning around a belt guard for a shaker motor and amputated her left index fingertip and left thumb tip in the belt and pulley.

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