# Amputations at Midwest Ice Cream, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2022075927` · 7/7/2022 · BELVIDERE, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Machine and appliance parts, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Machine and appliance parts, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Midwest Ice Cream, LLC
- **Location:** 630 Meadow Street, BELVIDERE, ILLINOIS, 61008
- **NAICS:** 311520
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was reassembling a piston. She was trying to insert the sleeve inside the piston by hitting the piston onto the table when her finger was caught in the side port of the sleeve. She suffered a fingertip amputation.

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