# Amputations at VVF Kansas Services LLC
> OSHA SIR `2022065726` · 6/30/2022 · KANSAS CITY, KANSAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Grinders, abraders
## Employer
- **Name:** VVF Kansas Services LLC
- **Location:** 1705 Kansas Ave., KANSAS CITY, KANSAS, 66105
- **NAICS:** 325611
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee had been grinding flashing for recycling. The employee was clearing a jam in the grinder and amputated his left index fingertip on the grinder's blade.

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