# Amputations at Opal Foods LLC
> OSHA SIR `2016010437` · 1/16/2016 · ROGGEN, COLORADO
## 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 regular operation
- **Source:** Drums, pulleys, sheaves
## Employer
- **Name:** Opal Foods LLC
- **Location:** 9575 WCR 73, ROGGEN, COLORADO, 80652
- **NAICS:** 112310
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

The employee was winding a winch cable. He was guiding the cable with his left hand when, by mistake, he pressed the activation pedal and his left middle finger got caught in the winch cable resulting in amputation above the first joint.

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