# Amputations at Koch Foods of Alabama LLC
> OSHA SIR `2022065274` · 6/17/2022 · GADSDEN, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Shearing machines
- **Secondary source:** Metal materials-nonstructural, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Koch Foods of Alabama LLC
- **Location:** 501 Paden Road, GADSDEN, ALABAMA, 35903
- **NAICS:** 424420
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was installing a piece of steel into a shear when the steel kicked up and pinched his left middle finger against the shear, amputating the fingertip.

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