# Amputations at Parallel Products of Colorado, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2017087792` · 8/14/2017 · GREELEY, COLORADO
## Severity
- **1 amputation, 1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Toes(s), toenail(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Banding, baling, strapping machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** Parallel Products of Colorado, LLC
- **Location:** 123 9th Avenue, GREELEY, COLORADO, 80631
- **NAICS:** 331312
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

Two employees had shut down a can crusher because the auger was making a funny noise. The injured employee had climbed up to inspect the upper bearing and had set his right foot over to the baler to steady himself. The baler engaged and started down, and the bale ejector chain hook came down on his boot behind the steel toe. His right big toe was amputated.

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