# Amputations at Pure's Food Specialties, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2021097584` · 9/3/2021 · BROADVIEW, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Mixers, blenders, whippers-food and beverage
## Employer
- **Name:** Pure's Food Specialties, LLC
- **Location:** 2929 S. 25th Ave., BROADVIEW, ILLINOIS, 60155
- **NAICS:** 333294
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

While dispensing icing into a container, an employee went to unclog some of the material from a mixer. A rotating shaft inside the mixer caused an amputation to the employee's right index finger.

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