# Amputations at Abilmar Foods
> OSHA SIR `2020042971` · 4/1/2020 · ABILENE, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Mixers, blenders, whippers-food and beverage
## Employer
- **Name:** Abilmar Foods
- **Location:** 5425 North 1st Street, ABILENE, TEXAS, 79603
- **NAICS:** 311812
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was moving a trough full of dough into a secondary mixer when his right hand slipped and his right index finger was caught between the locking mechanism and the trough, resulting in an amputation of his right index fingertip.

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