# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Empirical Foods
> OSHA SIR `2025032826` · 3/26/2025 · GARDEN CITY, KANSAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught or wedged between objects  nonrunning
- **Source:** Machinery  unspecified
- **Secondary source:** Other constructed surface
## Employer
- **Name:** Empirical Foods
- **Location:** 110 South Jennie Barker Road, GARDEN CITY, KANSAS, 67846
- **NAICS:** 311991
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was assisting with adjusting the legs of a piece of equipment. Their left ring finger got pinched between the legs of the equipment and the floor, which caused an amputation to the fingertip. The employee was hospitalized.

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