# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Nu-tek Food Science, LLC
> OSHA SIR `20241110800` · 11/20/2024 · FARGO, NORTH DAKOTA
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
- **Source:** Barrels, drums, cans  nonpressurized
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Nu-tek Food Science, LLC
- **Location:** 1301 39th Street North, FARGO, NORTH DAKOTA, 58102
- **NAICS:** 311942
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was emptying a waste barrel into a steel hopper. The barrels are attached to a forklift with a bracket and the forklift is used to raise the barrel over the steel hopper. Once raised, a chain is used to operate a pulley mechanism attached to the bracket that tips the barrel horizontally to empty the contents into the hopper. A link in the chain used to operate the pulley system detached. The employee went to manually dump the barrel and the barrel slid down, crushing his left hand between the barrel and the hopper. The employee sustained an injury to their left ring and little fingers that required surgery and partial amputation of the little finger.

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