# Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified at Del Monte
> OSHA SIR `2025043638` · 4/18/2025 · KANKAKEE, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger or thumb tip(s), nail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations, avulsions, enucleations  unspecified
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object dropped by person
- **Source:** Knives
- **Secondary source:** Secondary source not applicable
## Employer
- **Name:** Del Monte
- **Location:** 14 Stuart Drive, KANKAKEE, ILLINOIS, 60901
- **NAICS:** 561310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was peeling a watermelon when the knife slipped from his hand. He grabbed it and suffered a laceration on his right index fingertip, resulting in an amputation.

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