# Amputations at PROTEIN SOLUTIONS, LLC
> OSHA SIR `20211210714` · 12/14/2021 · JOPLIN, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** PROTEIN SOLUTIONS, LLC
- **Location:** 3800 E 32ND STREET, JOPLIN, MISSOURI, 64804
- **NAICS:** 311999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was installing a new pulley belt on a pulley system to the heat exchanger. Their right index finger was caught in a pinch point resulting in amputation.

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