# Amputations at VENTURA FOODS LLC
> OSHA SIR `2015021241` · 2/8/2015 · SAINT JOSEPH, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Valves, nozzles
## Employer
- **Name:** VENTURA FOODS LLC
- **Location:** 6000 INDUSTRIAL ROAD, SAINT JOSEPH, MISSOURI, 64504
- **NAICS:** 311225
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Employee was helping to troubleshoot an air valve.  While trying to isolate the valve, the valve closed, resulting in partial amputation of his left middle finger.

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