# Amputations at International Dehydrated Foods, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018010145` · 1/5/2018 · MONETT, MISSOURI
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation
- **Source:** Banding, baling, strapping machinery
## Employer
- **Name:** International Dehydrated Foods, Inc.
- **Location:** 700 S Chapell Drive, MONETT, MISSOURI, 65708
- **NAICS:** 311615
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was helping two other associates close a door to a cardboard baler. The injured employee and a coworker were pushing on the door while another was operating the baler controls. The injured employee instructed a coworker to close the hydraulic clamp that closes the door. The hydraulic clamp crushed the employee's four left-hand fingers (index through pinky) between the door and hydraulic clamp. The fingers were amputated.

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