# Amputations at Fresca Mexican Foods, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2023076781` · 7/27/2023 · CALDWELL, IDAHO
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Sealing, stapling machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Fresca Mexican Foods, LLC
- **Location:** 2009 Smeed Parkway, CALDWELL, IDAHO, 83605
- **NAICS:** 311830
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was sealing bags. They went to retrieve scraps from the discharge side of the fan when their fingertip was amputated by the fan blades.

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