# Amputations at Tropicana Manufacturing Company, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017098487` · 9/3/2017 · BRADENTON, FLORIDA
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Valves, nozzles
## Employer
- **Name:** Tropicana Manufacturing Company, Inc.
- **Location:** 1001 13th Ave East, BRADENTON, FLORIDA, 34208
- **NAICS:** 311411
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was working on a valve when the valve closed on and amputated one of the employee's right fingertips.

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