# Amputations at Gemstone Foods, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2022109524` · 10/31/2022 · FLORENCE, ALABAMA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Conveyors-powered, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Gemstone Foods, LLC
- **Location:** 700 S Wood Ave, FLORENCE, ALABAMA, 35630
- **NAICS:** 311615
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was realigning a jammed box on a knuckle boom conveyor. The conveyor caught her right hand, causing partial amputations to the middle finger at the middle joint and the little finger at the proximal joint.

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