# Amputations at Ventura Foods, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2023021179` · 2/6/2023 · SAGINAW, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
- **Source:** Presses, except printing, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Ventura Foods, LLC
- **Location:** 1100 Defiel Rd., SAGINAW, TEXAS, 76179
- **NAICS:** 311999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

On February 6, 2023, an employee was working on a line, putting lids on pails of shortening. The employee noticed that a lid was not positioned properly on a pail. As the employee tried to straighten the lid, the lid press came down; the employee's left thumb was caught between the lid and the press. The employee suffered an open fracture of the last joint of the thumb, a nail avulsion, and a partial amputation.

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