# Amputations at QUAKER MANUFACTURING, LLC
> OSHA SIR `20231110855` · 11/27/2023 · COLUMBIA, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Contact with objects and equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Conveyors-powered, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** QUAKER MANUFACTURING, LLC
- **Location:** 4501 Paris Road, COLUMBIA, MISSOURI, 65202
- **NAICS:** 311919
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee noticed a water spray nozzle from the grain conveyor system was out of place overhead. They reached up to put it back in the opening where it belongs when their left middle finger slipped into the opening. The employee's fingertip was amputated.

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