# Amputations at Atkins Prepared Foods LLC
> OSHA SIR `2016109606` · 10/11/2016 · APPLETON, ARKANSAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Compressed or pinched by shifting objects or equipment
- **Source:** Food and beverage processing machinery-specialized, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Atkins Prepared Foods LLC
- **Location:** 602 SE 1st St, Atkins, APPLETON, ARKANSAS, 72823
- **NAICS:** 424440
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was moving a mobile marination powder mixing tank. As he tumbled the tumbler, his finger was smashed between the mixing tank and the door hinge on the tumbler. He sustained a right pinky tissue amputation.

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