# Amputations at Dakota Growers Pasta Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017088024` · 8/21/2017 · CARRINGTON, NORTH DAKOTA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Conveyors-chain
## Employer
- **Name:** Dakota Growers Pasta Company, Inc.
- **Location:** One Pasta Avenue, CARRINGTON, NORTH DAKOTA, 58421
- **NAICS:** 311824
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was installing bearings on a conveyor when the employee's right ring and little fingertips were caught and amputated between the chain and sprocket.

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