# Amputations at GDM Seeds, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2018099682` · 9/19/2018 · IVESDALE, ILLINOIS
## 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:** Combines
## Employer
- **Name:** GDM Seeds, Inc.
- **Location:** Ivesdale Field, IVESDALE, ILLINOIS, 61851
- **NAICS:** 111110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was operating a combine to harvest soybeans when an access door became unlatched, exposing a rotating auger. As the employee attempted to re-latch the door, the rotating auger amputated the distal phalanx of the employee's third right finger.

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