# Amputations at American Plant Food Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2022043384` · 4/19/2022 · GALENA PARK, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Conveyors-screw, auger
## Employer
- **Name:** American Plant Food Corporation
- **Location:** 903 Mayo Shell Rd., GALENA PARK, TEXAS, 77547
- **NAICS:** 325314
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning the floor with a broom. He bent down to get something off the floor and placed his left hand on the guard of a screw conveyor. The guard of the conveyor was rotted; the employee's left index finger went through the guard. The conveyor cut their finger resulting in partial amputation above the fingernail.

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