# Amputations at Simmons Foods, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2023109973` · 10/27/2023 · MILAN, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Meat grinders
## Employer
- **Name:** Simmons Foods, Inc.
- **Location:** 832 E. 3rd Street, MILAN, MISSOURI, 63556
- **NAICS:** 311615
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning product debris off a grind wheel plate. As his left ring finger was in the grind wheel plate hole, it was caught between/struck by the grinder plate and the knife blades, resulting in amputation at the first knuckle.

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