# Amputations at Prairie Farms Dairy, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2015052804` · 5/12/2015 · GRANITE CITY, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Conveyors-chain
## Employer
- **Name:** Prairie Farms Dairy, Inc.
- **Location:** 1800 Adams Street, GRANITE CITY, ILLINOIS, 62040
- **NAICS:** 311511
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was cleaning around a drain in the area where milk cartons are placed on a conveyor belt. The employee reached in around the conveyor's chain-and-sprocket drive, which pulled and partially amputated the employee's right thumb between the sprocket and chain.

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