# Amputations at Knife River Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2020065534` · 6/14/2020 · BOISE, IDAHO
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Knife River Corporation
- **Location:** 5450 West Gowen Road, BOISE, IDAHO, 83709
- **NAICS:** 237110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning a discharge auger at the bag house when his right middle and ring fingers were caught and amputated in the rotating auger.

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