# Amputations at QC LLC
> OSHA SIR `2020010403` · 1/14/2020 · CAPE GIRARDEAU, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Heating, cooling, and cleaning machinery and appliances, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** QC LLC
- **Location:** 5422 Nash Road, CAPE GIRARDEAU, MISSOURI, 63701
- **NAICS:** 325314
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Two employees were working to unchoke a dust collector. The injured employee suffered amputation of two fingertips when he contacted the rotating rotary valve. The valve was unguarded at the time of the incident.

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