# Amputations at Shearers Foods, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2021053791` · 5/8/2021 · NEWPORT, ARKANSAS
## 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:** Mixers, blenders, whippers-food and beverage
## Employer
- **Name:** Shearers Foods, Inc.
- **Location:** 3636 Medallion Ave, NEWPORT, ARKANSAS, 72112
- **NAICS:** 311919
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On 5/08/2021, at 1:30 PM, an employee was starting the sanitation prep for a corn mill mixer. The employee opened the bottom side of the mixer inspection door to remove product and the auger caught her fingers causing an amputation of the left middle finger at the first joint, and a fracture of the left index finger at the first joint.

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