# Amputations at John Deere Des Moines Works
> OSHA SIR `2021109336` · 10/29/2021 · LOCKNEY, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Textile, apparel, leather production machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** John Deere Des Moines Works
- **Location:** Foster Brother Farm, LOCKNEY, TEXAS, 79241
- **NAICS:** 333111
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was trying to clear a plug of cotton from the saw cleaner system of a cotton stripper and sustained amputations to the left ring and little fingers.

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