# Amputations at Riviana Foods
> OSHA SIR `2015129092` · 12/2/2015 · ALVIN, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Food and beverage processing machinery-specialized, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Riviana Foods
- **Location:** 716 N. 2nd St, ALVIN, TEXAS, 77511
- **NAICS:** 424510
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee saw a build up of rice on the rice polisher feed hopper. He shut off the equipment to clean it. His right fingertip got caught in the feed hopper and was amputated.

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