# Amputations at Seneca Foods Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2019066257` · 6/21/2019 · GILLETT, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck against moving part of machinery or equipment
- **Source:** Special process machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Seneca Foods Corporation
- **Location:** 200 N. Green Bay Ave., GILLETT, WISCONSIN, 54124
- **NAICS:** 311421
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was sweeping around a cluster cutter. The machine was dropping some beans on the floor. The employee tried to attach a deflector to the running machine to keep the beans from falling onto the floor. His right middle finger contacted the sickle bar on the machine and a small piece of the side of his middle fingertip was amputated.

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