# Amputations at Saputo Dairy Foods USA, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2018022006` · 2/28/2018 · SULPHUR SPRINGS, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in or compressed by equipment or objects, unspecified
- **Source:** Valves, nozzles
## Employer
- **Name:** Saputo Dairy Foods USA, LLC
- **Location:** 300 Industrial Dr. East, SULPHUR SPRINGS, TEXAS, 75482
- **NAICS:** 311511
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was performing preventative maintenance on an actuator when an air fitting came out of the valve, causing the actuator to come down on the employee's right index finger. The employee suffered an amputation of the right index finger between the first and second knuckles.

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