# Amputations at Quality Sausage Company LLC
> OSHA SIR `2016076487` · 7/18/2016 · DALLAS, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Meat grinders
## Employer
- **Name:** Quality Sausage Company LLC
- **Location:** 1925 Lon Star Dr., DALLAS, TEXAS, 75212
- **NAICS:** 311999
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

At the end of shift, an employee turned off the grinder and used his right hand to clean meat off the grinder plate. The employee's right index finger went into a hole in the grinder plate and the fingertip was amputated.

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