# Amputations at Ajinomoto Windsor, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018032064` · 3/1/2018 · LAMPASAS, TEXAS
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), n.e.c.
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by falling object or equipment, unspecified
- **Source:** Machine and appliance parts, n.e.c.
## Employer
- **Name:** Ajinomoto Windsor, Inc.
- **Location:** 601 Third St., LAMPASAS, TEXAS, 76550
- **NAICS:** 311412
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was disassembling a dull extruder machine when the machine's plate crushed the employee's left ring and middle fingers, fracturing one and crushing the bone in the other. Both fingers had to be surgically amputated above the first knuckle.

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