# Amputations at Epicurean Butter CO, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2023109665` · 10/19/2023 · THORNTON, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Packaging, bottling, wrapping machinery, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Epicurean Butter CO, LLC
- **Location:** 14902 Grant Street Unit 110, THORNTON, COLORADO, 80023
- **NAICS:** 311991
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a machine that fills, seals, and places lids onto cups with butter. She walked over to the lidding mechanism to pick up lids when her right ring finger was caught by the feeding plate resulting in amputation of the fingertip.

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