# Amputations involving bone loss at Ventura Foods, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2024054592` · 5/24/2024 · SAGINAW, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations involving bone loss
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught, entangled in running powered equipment  normal operation
- **Source:** Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery
- **Secondary source:** Valves, nozzles
## Employer
- **Name:** Ventura Foods, LLC
- **Location:** 1100 Defiel Rd., SAGINAW, TEXAS, 76179
- **NAICS:** 311999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning the metal detector on a packaging line. He was removing and repositioning the two-inch, metal ball valve joint when it actuated and amputated approximately one inch of their right index finger.

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