# Amputations at McKee Foods Corporation
> OSHA SIR `20161211343` · 12/5/2016 · GENTRY, ARKANSAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Packaging, wrapping, bundling machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** McKee Foods Corporation
- **Location:** 555 McKee Drive, GENTRY, ARKANSAS, 72734
- **NAICS:** 311812
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was attempting to push product packaging into the cellophane film wrapper when the crimper shaft that cuts, heats, and seals the cellophane film amputated her left middle fingertip. The machine was guarded at the time.

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