# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Valley Markets, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2025021537` · 2/16/2025 · GRAND FORKS, NORTH DAKOTA
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Other finger(s)  n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by running powered equipment  during maintenance, cleaning, testing
- **Source:** Mixers, blenders, whippers food and beverage
- **Secondary source:** "Lock out/ tag out" communication systems
## Employer
- **Name:** Valley Markets, Inc.
- **Location:** 1925 13th Avenue North, GRAND FORKS, NORTH DAKOTA, 58203
- **NAICS:** 445110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning a dough machine when the machine cycled and rotating parts pulled the employee's rag into the machine. The blade struck the employee's hand resulting in amputations to three fingers. The machine was not locked out/tagged out at the time.

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