# Amputations at Sullivan's Foods
> OSHA SIR `2020065416` · 6/10/2020 · WINNEBAGO, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Banding, baling, strapping machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Sullivan's Foods
- **Location:** 703 N. Elida Street, WINNEBAGO, ILLINOIS, 61088
- **NAICS:** 445110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was closing a cardboard baler with his left hand. He pulled down the door and continued to hang onto the handle of the cardboard baler with his left hand as it closed. He reached with his right hand to start the baler. As he did this, his left pinky and ring fingers were caught in the baler, which started to pull his fingers in. His fingers were then caught on the safety mechanism.

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