# Amputations at General Mills
> OSHA SIR `2017098522` · 9/5/2017 · JOPLIN, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Fingertip(s)
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning
- **Source:** Conveyors-belt
- **Secondary source:** Wrenches-power not determined
## Employer
- **Name:** General Mills
- **Location:** 3007 Stephens Blvd, JOPLIN, MISSOURI, 64804
- **NAICS:** 311412
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using a wrench to adjust a bolt on a conveyor belt when he came in contact with the geared conveyance system, which pulled the wrench away from his hand. His right middle finger was in a circular opening of the wrench handle. When the wrench pulled away, it amputated his fingertip.

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