# Amputations at Birds Eye Foods
> OSHA SIR `2017076396` · 7/11/2017 · DARIEN, WISCONSIN
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Food and beverage processing machinery-specialized, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Handtools-nonpowered, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Birds Eye Foods
- **Location:** W880 County Road X, DARIEN, WISCONSIN, 53114
- **NAICS:** 311412
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a stainless steel, 72-inch-long probe to break up frozen vegetables in a hopper when the stainless steel probe came into contact with the mechanical cluster buster at the bottom of the hopper, causing it to twist and pinch the employee's pinky fingertip between the top of the hopper edge and the stainless steel probe. The fingertip was amputated.

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